Press Conference (Ryan Day) Elite Edition September 2

0:00Left side of your offensive line, how do they grade out? They look good to the naked eye. How do they look when you watch the film? Yeah, both graded out champions. And I thought they played their best down the stretch, in particular that last drive. So that's good. And I should, again, keep saying this, build confidence. We move forward. Both those guys being in that spot. So new challenge this week. Yeah, that game's behind us. You know, time to focus on. I'll, you know, Purdue. I'm really glad I'm real quick. Is there any update on time? And beyond that, can you just get into how well Caden McDonald has played that front? Yeah, he came back really stepped up for us. And we're hoping that he can continue to give us more more snaps, but great to see him with the game in a line. I think it was the third down play where he really got a lot of movement on the center. And that made a huge difference in that play, especially. But he was in there for all those plays. Two weeks in a row. So big spot for him to step up in. So we're going to continue to try to find ways to get him on the field. And Tyley is doing good. He's day to day.

1:00We'll see how he is. When he comes in. Tony Garbant, what kind of title? With that defensive tackle situation, what is Andrew Houston done to get involved there? Yeah. Well, he's got a very bright future ahead of him. I think he's going to be really good football player. Hasn't played a lot inside. So he's learning that position. But I think that when you look at how he projects out, we got one here now. He's got to keep growing. He's got to keep learning from Tyley and Tyley. And the age of Chris sees a playing inside, because it is different than playing on the edge. But he has a size, the power, the strength, toughness to play inside for us. But he's going to stay there. And what was his response to the position? He really embraced it. I think he sees what this could be for him. Not saying that maybe down a row, we wouldn't move him back outside. But I think he realizes when you go from being very athletic and strong defensive end and now moving inside, now you become elite

2:00as a three technique, because you have that speed and quickness. And he does have the power to hold the point of attack. Over to the right, Don, very WBNS. Coach, the first rankings come out of the matter. Will you pay attention to that, then just any thoughts on it? Yeah, no. No, just focused on Purdue. That's all that matters. And rankings right now, for us, again, don't mean anything, because you've got to keep winning. And that's for us, every time we walk off the field on a Sunday, no matter what happened the game before, that game is over with. It's on to Purdue. I think Purdue, their record may not say it, but they've been playing good football. And we've got to come in and play physical in this game, and we've got to continue to build on what happened last week. And that's what today's going to be all about in a Tuesday practice, because whatever rankings are they are, the matter, as we always said, the ones that matter at the ones at the end of the year.

3:01It was obviously a huge win over there. Loved the celebration afterwards. I didn't know you were such a great dancer. As far as what that does for the confidence, because it's one thing to say is that, but to go do it, and the way you were able to drive down the field and close out that game, what's it to do for your coach's confidence? I think we know we can do it. It's been two weeks in a row. We've done that now. Do I think that we should be in that situation in that game? No. I think our execution has got to be better this week, for where we need to go and what we want to do. But we also know the game of football takes twists and turns along the way. And you're going to find yourself in games. There was on pluses and minuses on both sides, positive plays on both sides, negative plays on both sides. But you've got to win the game in the fourth quarter. And a big part of that is being physical, so that you can control the game at the end of regulation. And like we did, we milked the clock there with five minutes plus to go in the game.

4:02And I've been in games before, where in five minutes, there's about four or five different possessions. You just go back and forth, and it turns into a shooting match. We had a 35, 28 or 48, 42. And this one here, we ran the ball and milked the clock. And finished the game that way. And that's what this game needed. You never know what's going to come up next. If we don't get to stand on defense, off has to go out and get a score. So whatever it takes to win the game is what we've got to do. But it all comes down to how physical we are running the football and stopping to run. Hey, folks, so we have to ask. Will, is, should be your stable force being such a veteran at edge of quarterback, a couple turnovers there. I know the one of the goal lines in my fifth loop in the way that thing came out for touchback is what it is. Any concerns of as far as we're trying to protect the footballing big games, what's it for? Well, it can't happen. It can't happen. It just, we've got to take care of the football. And the first play, you got fooled a little bit

5:05in terms of what he saw. And so that unfortunately, sometimes like that, those things will happen. But we can't fumble the ball inside a 10-yard line. Just can't do it. So we were, like he said, we were fortunate in the game because of the play of so many guys down the stretch and it turned into a four-quarter game because of that. We take care of the ball, but it doesn't have to be that way. So he knows that. And we're going to keep hammering at home this week and a huge emphasis on execution and taking care of the football. Let's roll over. Letterman Rowe. Ryan, what did you just like from what's Carson gave you guys as a nut guard? And what did he show you in the last of the weeks that they did? Thank you, he's ready. I'm really not playing all the shoes. Yeah. We looked at him during the preseason. He was out with illness. He was playing back up center. We moved into guard. We felt like at that time, Tegrig gave us more at right guard. And with Donnie at left guard, Seth was solidified at center.

6:06So we kept Carson right there at center at the time. Since Donovan got moved out, we felt like there was a hole there that we need to fill. And we had a couple different options there, and some good options. But in this game, we felt like experience was the right thing to go with. And after watching the film, he stepped up in a big way and showed us that he can play guard. And so we're going to continue to go with Carson. And we saw what we saw in film. And now he's got to keep building on it. You're going to be really happy about that. Right, obviously, Carson, giving you that boost is helpful because it answers the only question. I'm curious about the last week with Donovan. And the decision to move in the tackle for a kid that played guard for three years as a lot of NFL prospects, et cetera. How is the conversation with him about taking that risk and moving out there? How does he handle it? Post game? How does he handle it? And how does it feel different after the game? I think anytime you're making a move like that in a big game and going against a high end player, like Carter is, there's a lot to process there.

7:09But he never flinched at all. He never thought twice about it. He embraced it. I think Justin did a great job of preparing him in one week. Now he had been getting reps out there and practice. But it's not the same as preparing to play in a game, especially when you're on the silent count, especially against a great player like Carter. And so we really did tailor the game the best we could around that. There was a couple of third downs. We just had to call it and play it. And we did help with the cadence at one time. And then Carter got us on the other ones. But I thought Donnie absolutely just fought his tail off and played physical the whole time and wore those guys down and embraced a new role in a tough spot. So I think he can be a very good tackle. I mean, just watching his athletics system, his length, the way his feet move. And he can play a good tackle for us. Now we've got to keep getting them the reps and keep getting more and more the experience of being out there in confidence. But he's showing now that he can play both positions. So I think it's only going to help him.

8:10The fourth and two in the second quarter from the field where it's a risky play call up there. You risk giving momentum back to the state of the field. To call that player, Donnie, what did you see not again in the last couple weeks to put him in that spot? Because it seemed like a player who maybe hadn't found it as put it. Yeah, those are not easy decisions. But you got to in that moment, I felt like we had run the sneak before. We wanted to take try to get Will on the perimeter. They did a nice job of sniffing it out, but we'll continue to keep the play alive. We didn't think it would get all the way to Donnie, who was actually the last read in the progression. We had a tail back in the flat. We had Jeremiah on the over. And then here comes Donnie on the side of you mirror, which I don't think we threw all week. So for those guys to do that. And like I said the other day, I think you got three catches and three drops on one play, Donnie, centerman on that play. I mean, it was just one of those plays you got to make. And he did.

9:10And what a sideline was excited for him. But I think when you look at Jalani, you see somebody who has a tremendous amount of talent. He's growing every day, he's maturing every day. When he's consistently doing his job and knowing what he's doing, you see it. And I think that's been the thing that's held him back a little bit, but he's making those improvements now. And the more he can build trust in the staff and make it a big play like that and a big spot, certainly does a lot for him. Timothy Brown, do you have a fight? Brian for Carson since he didn't play in that combo, what growth have you seen from him really since that recent game last year. Now that makes you think this can be a consistent step. Carson has toughness. Carson has athleticism. Carson's smart. And I think after watching the film and maybe not taking on as much of this stuff in terms of making all the calls and everything like that, that maybe having set there next to him and Donnie over here next to him allowed him to focus on his job

10:11and not be worried about all the different things that happen. He could just go play football. And that's what he did. So I think there's a lot of growth and maturity there emotionally. So you don't want to hit it all into a being a guard or center right now. Right. You talk about not having the chance to make no calls. Playing a being guard, being next to Seth, seeing him do everything. How does that help him whether it's after the guard? I think you'd have to ask him. But from my point of view, having Seth in there certainly has built a calmness isn't the word, but a confidence. They're much more sure themselves in there. And Seth gets everybody in the same page, but also talks to them about how we're going to do things, in terms of footwork, about hand placement, about the double teams. And I think that's been great for Carson to see that. When you think about Carson's first couple of years here,

11:12I don't think we ever expected Luke to leave after three years. And he did and kind of left a hole there. So Carson got forced into action a year early. Another year under Luke and seeing Luke operate for another year as a senior would have gone a long way. And that's usually the ideal situation for a center. Carson got forced into action sooner than we have liked. But now he's got a chance to see Seth work. And I think that's really going to help him in his future. And you saw it there on Saturday. And like you said, whether it's guard or center, I think he's in a better place now. And certainly going out there and doing it on the field leads us to believe that's the case. Step on the question, Cleveland.com. To follow up on the offensive line there, you guys celebrated for the guys as the offensive players of the game. What more do you can see from Taylor's kind of moving forward to have better performance? Yeah, we try not to do that too much in terms of putting out the grades. When he was close, but the grades are the grades. And you've got a grade out of champion in order to get player of the game. But we thought he played his tail off. He played really, really hard. Just a couple of things in there that we got to clean up.

12:12And this is not a feel good situation. Neither you grade out or ratey percent of you don't. And he was right there. But we were real with the grading. And it doesn't take away from the effort and what he did. And we definitely called him out in the meeting and made sure everybody understood that he was right there and gave a great effort. It was part of the offensive line. So when you're grading, you're looking to decide on what you're looking at technique. Rahul, let me just back. Will Howard, when he makes mistakes, he seems to move from them pretty well. At least we're talking to him after the game. That seems to be something he really has. Is that better than me? Is that just wiring? Is that something you guys can coach into someone who's going to move on to the next play? Do you drink sports psychologists into the situation? Have you seen a guy like him and moved on that quickly? I mean, I know he does. He definitely does. He's got to knack for that. And we talk a lot about, there's a fine line of like,

13:13you make a mistake. And it's like, well, I'll just go on to the next thing. We'll all on. We just have a major problem here. So there's that fine line there. And so what we try to do in practice, and I try to do is whether it's a quarterback, the kicker, the left guard, or the corner, is make it hard for him to crack. When they do make a mistake, I mean, just get all over them so that they feel what that's going to be like in a game. And then you watch to see how that responds. If that play bogs them down for the rest of practice, then you know we've got some growing up to do here. And so we try to do that in practice, but Will's not somebody who's been in the program for a long time. I can't sit here and say that any of the coachings has any credit for that. This is something that Will's had. And whether he learned about this when he was in high school or gained it from being at Kansas State, you'd have to ask him, but that's something that we all try to do. And again, whether it's a corner getting beaten the goal wall, you got to like, Davis, and the way he came back after they get in that completion

14:16on them, and they did cobalt hold on them, to come back and make that play. That's what you have to do in these types of games. And I will say that I do feel right now in the middle of the season probably more than in years past that we've been tested more. Our players have been tested more. The team has been tested more so that we're a little bit more resilient than maybe in the past. And we played against teams or had games where we found ourselves in games that were a little bit lopsided. And you don't really get tested. You don't really get put into some of those tough situations. So we're counting on that to be a difference. Are you concerned at all with Seth Snaps? I saw it during the game. There were some low ones, and will at one time kind of try to calm him down, I think. I don't know if that's nipping, or have you seen anything? No, we want very, very accurate snaps. It makes a big difference. But I think he's been accurate with them. I thought he handled the environment. I thought the fact that our offensive line had zero fall starts, zero hold and calls was big in the game. I mean, that's what we needed. We needed a clean game. And so there's a lot going on there.

15:17And as you know, with the silent cadence, you saw we were tapping and then moving our head. And the head movement is so that the offensive line can then realize, OK, the ball is about to be snapped and anticipate that. And I didn't realize it. But if you ever try to just like move your head quick and then snap the ball, you can get dizzy quick. You can almost feel like you have vertigo. And so it's not easy. It's not. And I thought Seth handled himself well and handled the environment well overall. Dylan David, Dylan DeVan. Right. And Chip Simba, he was at his best on Saturday. What were your thoughts on the game that he called him? Were there moments throughout the game where you thought he was looking? What's called there? Yeah. I mean, we all work hard putting the game playing together. And I thought he called a good game. I thought he had patience. I'm not always the most patient. I think he's more patient than I am. And I think he understood that we need to establish the run in that game and be physical. And I think he did that in the game.

16:19And then when it was time to call some things that put guys in conflict, I thought they were well designed. And in those plays, they take a lot of work with he comes from the design of the play really in the week. Then it comes to how we're going to rep them, the scout team look, the protection. I mean, there's just so much that goes in like the one play at Omega. I mean, that took a lot of work. And meetings, walkthroughs, corrections the next day, just to get to that, get to be a competitive excellence. Then you get to get the right coverage. So a lot of things came into play. And even just a strain by Donovan on that play, just to give enough to push that defender off, to give Will one more second to Flip of Sips to get the ball thrown. And so, but that's what it takes in terms of execution. Those plays were well executed. And we need more of that. And we've got to be clean and simple so our guys can play fast. But I do think he called a good game, yes. I was with Professor Kent and talked about that experience in the decision to get with him. How much of that is experienced just in games? How much of that was experience in atmospheres like that? He's been in atmospheres like that. So he wouldn't be overwhelmed by the moment. That was what we were counting on. And I do feel like Carson was practicing better.

17:20But I can't sit here and tell you that there was a whole bunch of practice that put him ahead of anybody else. But then when he had the opportunity, that's life. He grabbed it. But now, now, where we're going from here. I mean, again, the Penn State game's over. Like, we got to worry about pretty well. We got to keep moving forward. So now we'll see how things go as we move forward. But he showed he can do it. And again, I hope that builds confidence for him as he moves forward. You can land it in the north. One of the Penn State offensive linemen said actually the game that he felt like your D-line was doing things, particularly against the run that they hadn't seen on film before, some stunting and things of that nature. And it does this until the last two weeks. There happened some noticeable differences with structures that these things, things like that. Where are you, I guess, in putting on the field, some of the conversations you guys had coming off in the Oregon game? How has that looked to you over these last two games? I think it's looked the way that we've wanted it to look. You know, we almost kind of a goofy word, but like re-engineered

18:20the defense. We had to almost start from scratch after the Oregon game. What I mean by that is not like scrap everything, but like, OK, what are the base foundations of what we're trying to get done? Who are best players? We've got to put our best players in a position to be successful. What are teams scheming us up in terms of what are they looking at? And you start going through that process, and you almost have to knock it down and rebuild it a little bit. Now, to the naked eye, there's probably not a lot out there that you're really noticing. But there are significant things that are going on that I think are giving our guys confidence. I think we're doing a better job of putting our guys in a position to be successful. I think we're getting lined up better. So we've got to keep building on it, though. I mean, a lot of football left. And we've already put a lot of football on film. So we've got to keep upgrading. And there's that line of doing what you do well and being able to play really fast and then making sure that you have enough changeups. So guys can't nail you down. I'd imagine that's only possible if you have better in players, you can handle those kind of things. How much of the key has not been as you changed it?

19:22But that's what I'm saying, I guess. It wasn't like, hey, we're redoing all of this. It's like, let's just trim all this out of here and just focus on these things right here. These are the best things we do right now and then kind of go off and have the one off from there. So like, again, you didn't all of a sudden start to see a three down front. So it wasn't like that. It was just really cleaning up some of the communication, how we do things, putting the right guys in the right spots. But it doesn't take much to be a little bit off. And I think that we're moving towards where we want to be. And there's going to be really good offences coming out as here soon. By the way, I think Purdue's offense is playing well. I think both quarterbacks are talented. They do a good job on offense. So far guys think that they're just going to go out there and play this Saturday. They're wrong. I think they're a much better team than their record shows.

20:24So we've got to have a great week of practice and keep growing. And if anybody in this building here is thinking about last week, then they're distracting. That can't happen. Have a game, but you can be on that. I'm kind of building off that road foot with the defense. How much do you say you want to be more involved in meetings and hands-on? How much do you think that's helped in kind of the re-engineering and changing a little bit? I mean, I think we have a really good system in place. I think we have really good coaches. I do think that maybe just being in there and being a little bit more systematized in terms of, you know, here's what we're thinking on first and second down. Here are some thoughts I have. How do we tie this all together? How do we put our best players in place? What are we thinking here on third down? What are the first few calls in the red zone? And just making sure I got a good feel for that and then giving just a little bit of feedback, not a lot. I don't want to bog them down. But a little bit of feedback on what I'm seeing as an offensive coach to make sure that they know not only all in that room together. Like when they leave, they're all on the same page.

21:24But I think the communication has been good. And I think, yeah, I do think at least being in there has helped listen, you know, talk to the coaches and making sure all on the same page. Going back, you colored across throughout the game against Penn State. There were things said after the brass game, after the Oregon loss, there was obviously a big game moving in Happy Valley. You guys win that game. How have you seen the energy from the week before? Kind of shift now in this place with everything now. Yeah, we'll find out today how we do it, you know, on our 230 team meeting and how we do it practice and where we go to Purdue. That's it. I mean, was it a good win? Yeah, it was a good win. But it's just allowed us an opportunity to go chase our goals. That's all it's done. We knew we had to go do that. And we knew when we looked at the schedule going to Oregon, to Penn State, we're going to be two great opportunities for us. You know, we didn't get the first one. We got the second one. So that was good. But a lot of football ahead of us and that games behind us now.

22:26Hey, folks, I'm Matt. We can try to keep one question over the run about time. A far left-go Newfidze WTNH. Because Jeremiah Smith is off to such a great start, he scored a touchdown in every game before this run. Your perspective was it how would you make the fact that he actually didn't score a touchdown? We had a chance. We just didn't connect on it. Yeah, we wasn't for a lack of trying. But, you know, he is off to a great start. And I thought, even for again, for a freshman in both of these two environments, he didn't flinch at all. And I think now that we're in mid-year, he's become a veteran player. He's not really a freshman anymore in my eyes. Steve L.A. at 24.4. Yeah, coach, the last drive, when I asked about that, the first play you're on the one yard line, you got to get it out of the shadow of your in zone to avoid a safety and get them all back. That play is in the quarterback and all five of the offensive linemen are together at the five yard line. Just, I mean, you could have had two or three of them get there, but everybody got there and she'll have been safe back.

23:26Just how important was it to start it by taking away the risk of the safety and then going from there? Yeah, I mean, that was it. I mean, we're backed up on the one foot one yard line. And we got to bang it out. We got to get that first first down. Not only do you get to get past the five because of the backed up punt, but you know, you got to get that first down. You got to get it out of there. And we know there's going to be a ton of guys in the box and it's just going to come down to running through the extra guy and making sure you get moving up front. But to see the offensive line jump up and fist pump and we'll get the thing out, I think, to the four or five yard line. I mean, that's what we needed right there. And that moment, the huddle was like that. And then the next play, we're running and getting vertical and getting downhill and it started with the offensive line, but other run-in backs were in hard too. But that's got to be who we are. I mean, that does as a matter if we don't do it again next week. It's got to be the same thing. So, but good to see us finish that finish the game that way. I have a yellow or a cross-proced finish.

24:28I know you didn't get to the lead no doubt part of this game, but in terms of the way that the new playoff structure isn't everything. How much does that matter in retrospect anymore with what's stopped? Like, aren't as really as big as the O's as they used to be? Is it as a win or win? Yeah, win is a win. And I'm thinking about that a little bit this week is, you know, with us huddling now and with everything going on, like, it's a different style of game. Yeah, I don't remember finishing a game with five some odd minutes on the clock and that was it. I mean, the game was over. We milked it out and we had some longer drives. And, you know, we're not snapping the ball at 20 seconds. So the number of plays are way, way down. It's almost more like an NFL style of game nowadays because you're huddling. So, yeah, the number one key is turnovers, rushing yards, you know, all these situations become more and more critical. And we do a good job in the red zone. You know, it's cost us the game. And so the situational football becomes more and more important. But, yeah, I mean, these games are going to be that way because, you know, we're huddling now and a lot of teams are huddling now.

25:29And so, you know, I just think that, yeah, the game has changed a little bit in terms of that. Certainly much different than it was, you know, five years ago when it was just back and forth and high scoring game. So, efficiency and execution are all time high. Andy Anderson, one more. You talked several times now about that. The goal line stand and you can talk about defending an inch of grass there. But just what goes into from your eyes, a goal line stand and what is important for getting that sort of a stock? Because obviously, you had two of them on side of that. Well, it starts with the guys up front. Yeah, it starts with, came back and hero and tie and JT, Jack. I mean, those five guys holding the line right there. And then it's this next level of guys. It's Cody, it's sunny, you know, those guys. And then like as the pile is there, I mean, you got to push that pile back. You got to drive it back. I felt like in the four-minute drill and offense, like we were pushing the pile one away. And I thought, the goal line stand, we were holding our ground right there and pushing the pile. It's just a mindset, you know, that, you know, we got to go win this game

26:31and, you know, to get two stops inside the five guard line in this game was the huge difference. Pat Murphy, point of point of point of support. Right, you talked about Caleb and his intelligence taking meetings to the field and all that. I think some people just look at the stats and say he's not having the year. He had it all of them up last season and understanding it's a different defense. But does Saturday show exactly what you're talking about where he's taking away a guy like Tyler Warren? He's making plays. It's kind of the culmination of things with him. Yeah, yeah. Now he's all over the field. He's got a huge impact on our defense and had some huge tackles in the game, some huge plays in the game and he's a huge part of our defense. Awesome. Awesome. You mentioned that shot to Jeremiah. It was just fractionally awful. There was another to Carnell. I think the first flush instinct is always just look at the quarterback. When you evaluated those two plays, what could be done, not just by Will maybe, to execute those. Carnell did a great job off the line of scrimmage up behind the defense,

27:33the cornerback slipped a little bit and there really wasn't anybody there. Will in that moment, he needs to keep the ball a little bit more inside. The carnell made a great catch but landed out of bounds. On the second one, I think Jeremiah felt like the safes were so deep that the ball wasn't coming his way. We tell Will, if he's anywhere near the depth of the safety, just launch it as far as you can. That's what happened. He just has to stay with it. But you're right. You missed opportunities that could have been much different. You referenced that earlier. There were pros and cons that you could have not been in that game. Those are the ones you think about. The turnovers, the conversation with Will, these are four opportunities that changed things. That's why execution, we got to be efficient, we got to execute. I think the mentality and the physicality and the toughness was all there on Saturday. That's it. In the end, that's what won the game. That's good. It doesn't need to be that way if we're executing better and cleaner and taking here

28:37to football and those things. You can do both. They're not mutually exclusive. Looking to combine all those as we head into the back half of the season. Follow up with Tegrif and Merleier. Do you feel like he's firmly that starting right guard? Are you still looking at mix and Austin and Merleier? Austin's ready to go. He maybe would get some reps but Tegrif is our right guard right now. You back to front, let it go. It times just in front, takes a few classical seats and just how validating would see the weight-align play on Saturday. It's just one game. But for him, for Justin, how validating would that be? And it reviewed for trusting the process here. Yeah. I mean, a big step in the right direction for sure. If we can keep building on this, then yeah, that would be a heck of a deal. I think it's staying after it and being resilient and that's what it's going to take. I think now there's a confidence coming out of it. Like, okay, we just did this. This is who we can be. But it's no good if we don't do it again this week. Another question about Will.

29:37I know what you like about him. A lot of things talk about him quickly. You also talked about the things that went along in Penn State. This team is obviously loaded. How confident are you that he is the quarterback who can take you to the championship level? Yeah, I think what you saw at the end of the game made a difference in finishing this game. We hadn't really finished a game like this in a while. But having his legs, having his physicality and all that made a big difference in this one. So we know how capable he is and a lot of different areas. And he is the leader of this team and the guys believe in him. We know we can win every game with Will Howard. And so I think the more and more he's in this offense, the more and more he feels. What it's like to be the Ohio State quarterback, the better. But at the end of the day, it's about winning the game and he did that and he's a winner. So again, a lot to come out of the game, a lot to learn from.

30:41And we have to play cleaner. But we love his fire. We love his competitiveness. We love his composure. The guys believe in him and he can make a lot of throws. So we're going to see if Zen would give us more options. You know, I don't think he'll be available this week. He is getting better, so we'll kind of see how he is and have an update later in the week. But I think right now the focus will be to stick with what we got right now because we feel like there was a good synergy coming out of that game. And final question, Tim May. Tim May. You want to go next? No, no, no. Okay. Brian, was there a drive? Obviously the last drive was gutter up to the to the end degree. But was there a drive Saturday where you looked at there and go?

31:43This is what I envisioned when I brought in Chip Kelly and Will Howard, et cetera. Were you just felt like things were under control, so to speak? It was kind of what you envisioned, this offense being a balance. I would say the responses after the interception, we kind of went out there without any hesitation. It just started rolling pretty good. And the combination of run pass and play action and all that was really what we're looking for. And I think the perimeter blocking, you know, has got to be better. But we left a lot on the field because of some of those perimeter blocks. And so, you know, we're going to work hard to get that fixed. But yeah, I think the response that we had after the interception for a touchdown, that was just a confidence level that I think had an effect on the whole entire game, really to just respond like that. And then, and then the other drive we got down there and through the the touchdown to Brandon and it was, I mean, that was good run pass mix there. I do think if we connected on a couple of those shots because that still has to be a part of our game, then, you know, you feel a little bit different coming out.

32:45Obviously the ball coming out on one yard line, that was a good drive as well. I mean, the block that Travyon had, I mean, no one's going to talk about that because we've fallen on a play, but man, it was a great play. So I think it was good run pass. We were efficient, you know, enough to win the game, but we need to be more efficient. But to see those guys, like you said, quench on and Travyon's selling out. I mean, from, I mean, that just tells you everybody gets it. What do you mean? Well, that's the mentality. The mentality was right in the game. And it's got to be continued to be that's what we got to start every week. That's the mentality. But, you know, you want the scoreboard to look different and execute better. Yeah. And finally, question. Stephen, please. Just, even with that, there's a right now. Where are George and Ian more in terms of their level of development right now? Something else we're happening. Yeah, yeah. I mean, they're ready. They're working hard. They're getting the reps in practice and, you know, they got to stand ready. They got to, you know, sometimes it's not always easy to be that guy who's one snap away, but hasn't really been in the game much. So, you know, if it's appropriate, we'll try to get him in the game to get him, you know,

33:48some game reps, but they need to keep coming. They need to get the reps in practice and be prepared because he just never know how it's going to shake. And the radio show, you say, who communicated to you guys that Abdul was clearly trying to figure out your guys' snap count, that makes you guys want to switch some things up there and be caught up on it. Oh, he's, you know, there was nothing like in terms of communication. He's just, he's a great player who tries to get a jump on the ball. You can see that on film. And so, you know, we came over, you know, there was a timeout and we just said, you know, in this third down, there's an opportunity to get maybe, you know, a free one here. And so, you know, we don't typically use a bunch of cadences when it comes to silent count, but the guys were disciplined enough to use the double head bob. And that was enough to get a first down, which turned out to be pretty big. Anytime you get those first downs like that, it was big. We had everybody over in a sideline and we communicated that to Seth and Seth was great and the guys, you know, hung in there on it and it was a big play force. Yeah. Coach, thank you very much. I think you're right. Can you feel, can you drive up against an offensive on the field light?

34:49Can you feel like you're at a good way from now where you can do things against them either what the offensive was. If you're trying to, yeah, I mean, this year is kind of different because I obviously don't close it to the ball, but it kind of feels the same. You know, I think I like being able to play, so he's like tying the things up and doing it a round full speed and being able to hit somebody and catch the month guard. And that's just what I'm able to do now. There's only ball and closer to him. We haven't really talked about like a few guys, but he's talking about like winning the Guinness. I got the chance to work with him with my junior at the opening, but I was different because I was playing off-road. Boom. Yeah, that's the one we got. They know what Smith is going to do. Let's see the way that he coaches. I mean, he doesn't give a lot of this. He's nice to me. What is his style? It's very intentional, but he knows that we're human.

35:53So, you know, he knows nobody's going to be perfect and it's okay to mess up, but the thing is being able to learn from that mistake and not do it again. How different is this open finisher here at the Perturac. What's the whole definition of here at the end of the game? It's different, but like I said, I've just been enjoying the ride. I like riding on now, so I'm just going to grow at this fight and get to where I want to go. 100%. No, it's very hard. Even if you just look at our 2020 hoop class, we've got a lot of guys. Now we're probably going to have like five or six guys here, exactly. So I'm being able to just stick it through and just, you know, I feel like me staying here each year, I feel like I was telling this thing. Because yeah, it was opportunity to transfer, but I just kept feeling like God just stay. Let his will be done just let his will, you know.

36:55What's the center of what you like when you know you may not make him his position change? You know, I try to every little drill that we do, I try to make sure I'm doing it to the team. You know, I don't like to mess up and that's why you see me after practice working with Coach Johnson or Coach Patricia, because of the fact I know it's very urgent, but I still feel like I have time. I was only spring, you know, about 158 days probably to replace us. You've been reppin' there throughout December, obviously. What exactly did you start to make that transition though? And when you heard they were hiring, not Patricia or Coach Warner, you were having a... Um, obviously in December it was different because we had Coach Knows here and Coach Knows for someone. He was telling me different ways he was going to use me with the Jagged and where he was going to have me line up and things like that. Coach Day, what he was telling me was, we were going to bring in a different coach and just, you know, there'll just be a specific coach just for the position I was playing.

37:57That way it could just be easier on everybody. And that probably was just going to be Coach Knows because obviously it's his defense, but with Coach Patricia coming in, I feel like it's a lot easier on everybody because of the fact, like I said, his experience and everything that we're doing now, it just feels like everybody can just play faster to be themselves. When you see the last question, 158 days, what would you know that number? We talk about every day. Yeah, Coach Day brings it up every day. It tells the fact that we got to, like, yeah, we have one good day today, but we do have to stack day on top of day on top of day because of the fact that we played Texas and Texas just in the playoffs, you know, they didn't know I saw it. You know, that they're probably in the same mindset as we are right now because they lost a lot of starters, but it still doesn't mean anything. Are you guys like, like, a part of the little part of it started to get through a time back with the edge? How much does that inspire you to see what kind of success that happens to you guys at? No, I feel like watching those guys, I feel like you can see like it helped them a lot more, especially with the Bull, especially with the day last year

39:00because of the fact it was, it's the first year on the line of scrimmage, but, um, no, obviously I watch those guys, I watch other guys, but I'm on weight. Deeper tabs on everything because, like, uh, Coach Day said, you guys are just for the day you show up here in the room. Yeah, I think that's leading, are you, are you doing the little things instead of what's that like? I think that's fishball. Kind of with that report. When you're at a big time program, I think I'll stay, I think everyone's judged. You know, everything you do is important. How you, uh, how your locker looks is important. Um, all the small details. How do you handle, how do you handle, oh, go ahead. Colin, you basically the air parent, I mean, a lot of people think you're going to be the guy. What do you think you have to prove over the next several weeks and then, I don't always say that outside noise. I'm just focused on getting better every day. You know, getting ready for Friday's practice. Uh, just, uh, I'm hoping I'll practice there. I was going to kind of ask the same question and then, how do you handle that? Like having that really people here to watch a practice or, you know, being or walking around in Columbus, when you know that the quarterback's probably the most judged position, maybe in all of college football.

40:03You know, I think, how I guess I before, I'm really just focused on the fundamentals and improving every day and just getting better. Um, you know, taking what coach day, coach making, coach wrestler, uh, bringing us, bringing us to the court. What do you think you have to do? Uh, uh, I think this winner, I've, uh, gave a little bit of weight, got stronger, so that was a big point. I was in the winner and I really just, you know, focusing on, uh, just getting good, big and strong. Uh, I've looked about, uh, gave about 10 pounds of social distancing. How much better? Uh, I feel, I feel good now, uh, just, you know, being a little bit heavier. It was good. It was big, big thanks to coach Mekko. It's a little bit more. What do you think of being the starting quarterback at Ohio State? What does that look like to be? What does that mean? Yeah, it's definitely, uh, definitely the goal. Um, but we're so long as we're just getting, uh, 15 carats easy.

41:04Just getting that. What should that person go from? Yeah, I think, um, you know, the type of sky, the first guy in last guy out, kind of like everyone says, and, uh, you know, being that later in the offense. What are you able to do last year? What, what's that I with you last year about, you know, Billy Fessler, what he was able to do with the quarterbacks and how much did you specifically get to work with them? Yeah, he had, uh, he had so much impact on our quarterback room last year. Um, him and coach Kelly both did a great job with us and, uh, I was really appreciative of those guys. Uh, just we're, uh, we work closely with the coach Fessler and, uh, I was happy to see him yell. How much different do you feel when you're on the way to, when you talk to your younger, your spring practice, you can just get in here and come from Alabama? How much different a year later do you feel in this program as a quarterback, obviously? Yeah, I think when you, when I first got here, I was still learning how everything works and learning what you're doing. Um, and now I think I know what I would know what I'm doing, uh, within the plays or within, um, how the program works. So I think it's, uh, it's been good to just get adjusted, but, uh, still still trying to improve.

42:05And when you talk about toughest guide, first one in last one or last one or last one, there's two other guys that are trying to do that. How do you, how do you feed that guy when two other guys know that that's what they're doing? Yeah, I think it's, um, our room is very competitive, but we're also very close. Uh, it's only three, it's only three guys in our room. So I think it's, um, it's important for us to just be close, but also competitive. I wasn't even able to watch. Go ahead. Yeah. Watching you throw one of the biggest things that stands out, I think it's how quick it releases. Still, how much is it you can do? How did you develop that quick motion? I think, um, I've naturally had a kind of a quick release. Not kind of out of high school, I was always, I was just kind of had a quick release and I've been trying to get a quicker. Yeah, you, yeah. You said the watch will end up in the battle last year. What did you learn from that? Maybe you and Lincoln had to take it and understand that it's competition, but also trying to get each other better for the team. Yeah, I think Will and Devon had a great friendship, but they were all very competitive.

43:06So I think it was, uh, it was definitely good to see and that's something that we have in our room this year. I just want to show you the toughest guy when nobody can touch with them. I think there's a lot of ways to show toughness and support about it. I think, you know, taking mental reps, you know, finishing out plays bursting through the line. I think all those control toughness. It's like, I'm all on this. We spent a lot of hours here, we're, you know, watching tape. I'm getting ready to practice. So we spent a lot of time. I'm gonna get it right. I'm gonna stay way to the point. I think we all, the whole core program is held to a standard. We all are, you know, together in this tournament, uh, beyond time and show up early. Just how it was a little bit easier for me, like I've said, just a familiarity with the facility and the people and the coaches. So the rest of the society built and they kind of understand how I learned and how I operate in my mind. So they've been able to coach me adapt to how I learned and teach for our kids.

44:07Is that, is your discussion of who you are? Practice, feel the room. You know, um, it's the biggest thing that I've tried to focus on is translating everything from those meeting rooms to the field as quickly as I can. Just picking up on every quick note that I can. Any advantage I can get, you know, on the, on my opponent, I want to, I want to have that advantage. And so I learned everything in the meeting and trying to understand to the field as much possible. So I'm just like, preparation for each of you. How do you do that? What's different about that? Yeah, coach, coach Fester and coach CK, our assistant for best coach and other for best in Tide Ants, and get together like every time I walk through. Whether that's just me, coming in and having a little meeting with Coach Fester before workouts or after workouts. There's something going on every single day, just to build my development and really give me, like I said in that, manage. I was trying to learn everything I can and be the best coach of the player in person life in the field. Coach, how do you work back together?

45:09How? Where are you on that side of the middle? Yeah, really, like I said, just learning everything. I got to understand why we're doing the things we are doing and, you know, what we are trying to do with it and how we're going to do it and how we're going to accomplish it. You know, that's still a learning thing for me. This starts second practice. I really just want to get better and amplify it and make it better so that one provides practice for me. I mean, because it's like taking a snap of something and you need to do a lot of things. No, sir. I opened this up to realize I was five-star in the whole third of the country. You get to hear the words just with the little things like that. Is it public? Is it eye opening? Is it scary? What is that feeling? Yeah, definitely very eye opening for me just because I didn't. I think coming from the place that I came from, like you said, not doing under-center things like that. Like there's little intricate details even to just taking a snap under-center that I never knew were there because I had never done it. So learning that stuff and, you know, fine-tuning everything that has to be, that has to go into being a great quarterback.

46:11And it was definitely very eye-opening. The first day I got here, and I was touching on it every day. So it's all the same word you can say to your little girl. What are you at doing with the day I like with her versus the things you want to do? Yeah, really just, you know, I think getting better every day, that's the main focus. Just trying to develop everything with that. You get better at everything that I can. You can be a better leader for the team, be a better teammate, be a better person outside of practice. That's really been the main development. We'll see where it takes me throughout the spring, but just trying to get better at everything with that. I develop everything today is on your focus. And now for you, I'm going to see four weeks of the play-off. I'm going to do a really wide, well-known lesson to the coach that we had. I'm going to have a couple of two hundred extra points. The better leadership that you have for your team and the closer relationships that you have, the longer it will take you. With him, I saw just nobody hated, but nobody just like everybody loved. He was comfortable talking to anybody. I mean, that's something I'm going to carry with me. Just trying to be familiar with everybody.

47:13Know everybody, know everything about them. That's really been the main focus. It's been a relationship for people that I don't know what it's up to. And really just trying to build that kind of cheer on team. It's been the main focus. You're the body that I've been all the time coming for. Is there a building like what you're going to do when you get here? I just want to get real with some of the things that you have to do now. That you have to just wait right here about that. Yeah, I think the first time that I had taken a snap with my offense on the field, my group of offense on the field, it was like, this is actually happening now. And it's not just a dream that I'm trying to make happen. It was a dream that I'm living now. And so, you know, I just take every opportunity I can. I'm blessed to be here. I love it here. I'm a little chained for the world. So, it's really just like, really just like I said, you're better every single day. The guys in the room are the best in the country. So, you just got to compete every day. I don't know how state that's what it breeds. So, competitions, what we talk. And that's what we do. So, really just getting better every day. That's been all of our focuses. I'm going to try to work.

48:13I was curious how you assess Texas offense. And they've had their struggles in the running game. So, they look like a team that's kind of pass heavy and leads into the past first. And how would you evaluate that part of their game? I mean, you say they struggle the past a few games in the running game. But I think they got a super explosive run game. If you watch the Clumsey game, I think they put up almost 250 Russian or something like that. I think they're a team that's capable of putting up around 50 points if you let them. So, I mean, we're deep enough short-rated players in an extremely talented offense on all three levels. I think the quarterbacks great player, the running backs are very, very explosive. She was very explosive. They got great tie-down and great online. So, they're well-rounded offense. And you guys are big favorites in the game. Do you worry at all about, you know, overconfidence or complacency just because the way you all have dominated the opposition so far? No, I don't think anything outside knows matters. I think there's things they said about us before. We won those two games and now they're thinking, set up after we won those two games and those things might be different.

49:15And it really doesn't matter to us. We're just focused on the opinion inside the Woody. And we know we've got a very big game every single week. It's a really good team. It doesn't matter how it beat the last two teams. This is a whole completely different team. Thank you. That's all our questions on Zoom. All right. We'll go back to the local level here. Phil Rebenoins, Columbus Dispatch. I mean, you guys travel, you're fans travel very well, but obviously this game is in Dallas. Do you guys kind of thrive and like the playing front of hostile crowds? I think guys kind of like going into enemy territory sometimes. You know, it feels good being a little bit of the villain, you could say, but, uh, yeah, I mean, obviously you've got to take into fact that it isn't in Texas. So it could be a lot of environment. Could be like an away environment. We obviously know that. But, I mean, that's right. Marron, where you put the ball down? We're just going to come show up and play. And I think there's a staff that you guys, your opponents have not been called for a holding call since September or something like that.

50:18Is that something that you guys are aware of? And do you guys point out on the film? And you can call that one. Maybe call that one. Yeah, we're aware of this. We don't pay attention to too much. So you guys just play. Um, yeah, we've got too much to say about that. You got to just play through it and just let your, let your talent take over. Don't let it come down to a ref decision. Over here to the right. Austin Ward, podcast. Something that didn't feel like against Oregon that you guys had to blitz as much as you had in maybe some other games in the second half of the season. Why is that? What does it allow the linebackers to do when you don't have that responsibility? What, what made that a successful approach on Wednesday? Yeah, I think, uh, when you got as talented as guys, we do a front with those four guys up front. I mean, a four man pressure is feeling like a six man pressure to the quarterback. So you're able to drop out and be able to drop everyone else in the coverage. So it makes a lot easier on our defense when the defensive line is just taking over like that. I mean, it's, it's tough for an offense to do anything. We got four, four man, four man rush. Feel like a zero coming at you and then you got everyone dropping into coverage. It's kind of just shout over the field.

51:23So I mean, it's definitely makes the demons lie easier for everyone else when the defense lines playing like that. Jim knows it talked about this a little with having so many veteran players that you could make different game plans. You don't have to just be, you know, pigeon hold into one thing. We kept a week. Does it feel when you get in there and you guys start game planning? Like they are very different for every opponent for you guys at this point. I don't know if I would say that. I think they keep it simple enough where guys aren't like confused when we're doing. I mean, might, like, look like that for like the quarterback. We might be giving them different looks and things like that. But I don't think it's over complicated at all. But I mean, that might just be because we've got a veteran defense as well. So it could be a little bit biased, but that's kind of the way it feels. It doesn't feel over the complicated and like that. We'll go to Joey Cop and Columbus this back. How do you think it's helped you guys to have the Kaila Downs dropped out more into the box?

52:23Layed in the season, I've been doing that. It seems like more. How does it help you guys? Yeah, I mean, I think both of our safeties have done a really good job, you know, dropping down in the box again, would come down faster and run support. I mean, I think when you see guys coming from 12 yards and they're making tackles for two yards games, it's all that's pretty impressive. I mean, you saw Layton's last game come from the weak side, boundary hash, about 10, 12 yards, you come down, hit the dude at two yards and like, home was knock him out. So, I mean, both of our safeties are super impressive in the run game. So it definitely makes it the health of the defense, you know, usually when you're dropping the safety in, usually those four yard runs, five yard runs, and where they're stopping for two yard runs, no yard runs. So it's super impressive and it helps the defense out a lot. We'll go to Jeremy Birmingham, the podcast. So, how much does the defense structure really changed since the organization, or if it's more of a loss of time, like you guys just being more better in knowing the defense better, or as there have been fundamental changes that have been made?

53:23Because it looks a lot different. Yeah, I mean, I think there's been some changes, but I think a lot of it's been a mentality of trying to be a speed more aggressive, and just having an aggressive mindset. I think you've seen that in shows up on tape, with the pressures, the TFLs and things like that. And I think we've gotten a lot better since the beginning of the year, and we've kind of improved on the issues that have shown up each week, because the issues are always there, and I think we've improved on those really well, and then obviously we look like completely different teams out. You've got a different aggressiveness from the coaching staff, so it's not just individuals, individual position coaches like the coach, or not just, but even from my day, like, is he been a different type of leader? I think he's been a great leader the whole year. I think after that team on Norfolk lost, we kind of hunkered down and say, hey, we're going to get up, and we're going to start swinging, and we're going to keep swinging as hard as we can, and see what happens at the end of the game.

54:23And I think that's what we've been doing the past two games, and it's worked out pretty well. Next to Mick Walker, Letterman Rowe. Sonny, you mentioned a great fight in earlier. What stands out to you about Gunner and Helm? And how do you kind of take out a guy that's such a focal point for all of us? I think he runs great routes. He has good hands. I think they set up some really nice plays for him. You see some of those plays where he kind of sneaks out of the protection and comes out wide open. I think the biggest thing that stands out is probably the routes in the hands. He's super impressive for a tie down. Obviously, he's always been wearing where he's out in the field, and there's going to be some explosive plays set up for him. Any other questions here? Definitely. Yeah, absolutely. Letterman Rowe. I'm sorry. Good minute eruption, Jerry. Who are yours in a nutshell? How would you describe him to someone? He seems even more effective when he kind of gets out of the pocket or moves around and stuff. Sonny, what do you see when you think of him?

55:25I would say the capability of like Ergo on the game, no him getting his routine. Like some of those routine throws, routine throws. They run the ball, that's play action shot. 50 yards and I'll feel. It's like that. I think he's a super good job with that. Being able to sell the play action, pull the safety up, and then pitch you downfield with a 60 yard bomb, and like that. So I think that's the biggest thing that stands out to me on film. He's a super talented quarterback, super talented arm talent. He can get the ball on many different ways. But that's probably how I put it in the show. He's just super talented player. He can make any throw on the field. Like he said, he can move around a little bit. I don't think people respect that enough, his legs. He can move around and extend the plays. It hurts you downfield. Is there really a guy that used to be in this building, at least for four or five months? I wasn't really here with him, but the only thing is really, you play some former players before, but obviously he's a talented player. I think a lot of guys have a lot of respect for him, so it's just going to be a good match. I'm excited for it. Go to Bill Rebellion, Columbus this batch.

56:25Adam, the win will talk to you next. I'll ask you now. I'm sure the last thing you're following around, we'll talk about. Do you have any idea what you're going to do about next year? I mean, you obviously can go to the NFL. Do you have any thoughts on that right now? No, I have a thought about it all. Just worry about winning. Scotty, that's it from Columbus for sunny styles, any more on your end? No more on our end. Thank you, sunny. Thank you. Okay. End of this game. You know, we knew we needed to be physical, play downhill football and go at him. And I think our O-line took that challenge and ran with it, man. And those dudes are bad SOBs, man. And they're coming downhill and just rocking people off the ball. And I think they're playing really, really good football right now. They're just continuing to get better every single week. I think they played really well last week. I think they played really well this week. Love you. Who is that? Mech. Love you, mech. But the overall, man, those guys are playing their butts off.

57:27And then, you know, I mean, you let Q and Trey do the rest. And we say we want to have our O-line get to and our backs get to every single play. And I think our O-lines get in us four and our backs can get us 60 plus. So I mean, it's good. And I mean, our O-lines playing at a really, really high level right now. And across the board, I'm really proud of those guys. Noah Weiskov, the Lantern. After that first half, what was the message to the team in the locker room? I mean, I wouldn't say anything was really different, man. It was, we just came out and we said, you know, it's a new half. And, you know, every, we always put the emphasis on that middle eight, you know. And ending the first half the right way and starting the second half the right way. And we didn't, we did not execute the middle half in the first half. But coming out of the half time, going down, getting the score, you know, getting a couple turnovers, like that was huge. And that was, you know, our emphasis was like, we've got to come out and start fast. We've got to go down, get a score.

58:27You know, we deferred so we get the ball first. And then we got to come out and get some stops. And I mean, the defense played an unbelievable game today. And when you got defense, it's going to shut them down like they did. I mean, it's hard not to win a lot of games. Andy Backstrom, Letterman Rowe. Talked about earlier this year. There's Open and then there's Ohio State Open. How much of that factor in the red zone with a Mecca? And just where you at with kind of adopting that? Yeah, absolutely, man. It's one on one, you know, is they're open. And I've said that. And, you know, I have all the trust in the world and those guys. And I've seen them do it and practice. You know, it makes my job easy when I can, when I can throw a ball that Mecca on that corner out there last touch on that we had. Wasn't a great throw, honestly. You know, we practiced that play on the hash mark. You know, where I had a little more time to throw that. And, you know, we have it in the right middle. So it's a little more off the hash. We got to be a little quicker with it. And I left it a little inside and Mecca made a great play. And, you know, it's just like things like that. Just giving guys chances. And I mean, it's JJ, like that one handed catch is, I mean, it's stupid.

59:28Like it's, it's, you know, you just let them go make plays, man. And it's fun to watch. It's easy. And, you know, it makes, makes my job, makes my job pretty nice. Over to the right. James Watkins-Cleven.com. What are you playing big games before? Which means you played in games before. Big games before, trapped games, something to say. What do you think you learned about a team in these kind of moments? And what did you learn today? Yeah, we said this coming into this game, you know, we were going to learn about this. We're going to learn a lot about this team and our toughness and our, you know, our ability to, you know, block out the noise and go down and get to work. And, you know, we knew we had a big one coming up this week. But we knew that this was a big one too. And I think our ability to just come out there and play some smash-mouthing football a little bit. You know, I think we started well. You know, the first quarter, we only had one driver. We had four team plays and we went down and scored. And, you know, the second quarter, you know, just, you know, two turnovers, a turnover on downs. You know, we beat ourselves, you know. It's never, you know, the other team beating us is us beating ourselves. But, you know, it's all about how you respond.

1:00:29And we came back and we did a great job. So, you know, I'm proud of the way that we played. But, you know, we got a big one coming up next week. So, I'm excited. If we can start to wrap up with Donovan Jackson in the back, please. And we've got two more questions for Will Howard up front. Bill Rabinovitz, Columbus Dispatch. Everyone is pointing to this early game all season. I was out of the test. How well prepared are you guys? How do you feel going into that game with all the stakes? I think confidence wise, we feel great. You know, we've continued to iron things out and get better every single week. And I think that's true. I think we've learned a lot about ourselves and about this team. You know, I think going into this game, you know, we know that it's a big one. And, you know, I haven't really looked at it yet. We knew that this Iowa team was going to be a good team. So, I mean, you know, I looked at it a little bit, you know, on the by week. And I started checking them out and seeing, you know, what they're about. And, you know, I'm excited, man. It's going to be, it's going to be a good challenge, you know. Played against Dylan a couple times. He's a great player. You know, their defense is good. You know, I know Dan coach landing is a, you know, a good coach. And he's going to have them ready. So, I'm excited to get home now and start watching some film and get ready for these guys.

1:01:32And final questions for Will, Tim May, Letterman, Role. Yeah, just your quick, Will. The way the first half ended for you and stuff. You know, my log going, hey, I'm better than that. I mean, you know, you just get straightened out, I guess, at halftime. And then, number two, someone get another question. You and Dylan gave it, you know, two guys from the big club not going against each other. Big, big pin show. Yeah, just, what does that mean to you? Yeah, man, it'll be fun. You know, going into that, going into halftime, yeah, I was, I was, yeah, I was, I was, I was pissed at myself, you know, because I feel like it's uncharacterized. You know, putting the ball in harm's way like that. You know, I want to be safe with the ball in my decision making. I'd like to hang my hat on that. And, you know, it's just like, but at the end of the day, man, like, you just got to flush it and move on. You can't dwell on it too long in the moment. You know, we'll go back right now and I'll go watch the film and, you know, be critical as critical as possible and say, you know, can't do this. You know, it got to be better. But in the moment, like, it's very, very, very important to just move on and brush it off.

1:02:34And then, yeah, going in and next week, you know, with Dylan, man, I, I actually, in 2022, we played at Oklahoma and I was ageing with still playing. So I never actually have got to play against Dylan, but I know him. He's a good dude, man. And, you know, I got one of my, one of my boys from, from K-State, one of their safes. So excited to go out there. It's going to be, it's going to be a fun game, then. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. I'll go books. You know, go up the table. It's fun to play with guys like that. And, you know, just opens up the office as I have to. So, it's a lot fun. What's the, what's the answer to the struggles in the rental and the first off? Yeah, I think we just need to find out some little things. I mean, it's one of two things every time. So, we definitely got to figure that out and clean it up as we go. Back to you, we talk about the talent. But you guys have an element. So, when you have those regents on the struggles, how do you think? You guys say, you know, every time you have a talent, you have a medal. Yeah, I mean, he's got to stay steady. I mean, we know what we're capable of, and there's, you know, we have a talent. You know, we're still confident about what we can do.

1:03:34And, you know, we stay confident. So, I think, you know, the first day is, the first day is talk about, you know, the versatility you want us to see the world over the field. But especially with the tight ends, you know, just how fun is it being? What's the light being part of an office that, you know, has you to do so many different things? Have so many different formations and things like that? Yeah, no, it's fun. I mean, growing it out with those guys is a lot of fun. Cads, my own counselors are fun. So, it's been fun to do a lot of different things. And, it's a lot of different things that, you know, I'm just assuming you've been a lot better out. So, I'm excited about that. When you're sitting here, you feel like you're not coming to a lot of such a good sense? Yeah, I think I've become a lot better. I mean, the growingness has got every day, our defense, and some real decent stuff. You have no option but to look at it. It's been fun. When you're out there, it's been fun. When you're out there, it's been fun. When you're out there, it's been fun. When you're out there, it's been fun. Oh, yeah, I mean, we have these four games, stretch kind of, so, we have a lot of improvement to make. And, you know, I think we're excited about that. See what we can do after this five weeks. What's the biggest lesson about that? Biggest lesson? Or, say, stay, stay, you're gonna kill.

1:04:34Don't get too bad. I mean, there's gonna be ups and downs, but you gotta stay, you gotta stay, you know, so. When you're out there, if J.J. does it amazing you some of the things that he does? Yeah, I mean, you see it every day of practice, so, honestly, now I see it, like, it doesn't really amazing as much, because you see it every day, so, but yeah, you see the special talent. You have a chance in certain plays, we get to do that, and then allowing certain guys in certain places to really mess up the quarterback is thinking, so it allows us to have more pressure and be able to allow us to do more moves at the time, because it makes it offensive, confused. And what we're doing, so about allowing putting blitzes in there, really makes us have the patch worse force, allows us to get sad. Ten to many, under mid-roll. Yeah, with that said, like, for example, S-39 against E.M. Allieva. Yeah, I said it right. I think. But he was quite elusive and stuff. Was that a good, I don't know, prep for this week? I mean, because Dylan gave us a little bit different scrambler, but he still gets the job done. Oh, yeah, that was definitely good to have, because like I said, I mean, all the quarterbacks were very mobile and being, people that have more experience versus mobile quarterbacks helps us, obviously, you know, just help us home and learn from our,

1:05:39where we had them going through the hole and how to scrambles, where we can learn from those scrambles. And we go from that game and the past game we played against Morgan just learning, learning the quarterbacks tendencies, and when they like to run, the way they like to run, everybody helps us out, really closing the cage and placing the pocket for them. Is there a fine line between being aggressive, but also being wary, this guy can slip away, you know, slip away, you're saying what I'm saying, timing? Yeah. You can't just go right at him and go ahead, I'm sorry. Yeah, he's definitely a quarterback and then gets out of the pocket. So I mean, being, he's definitely a threat. He's a main guy in offense, he runs the show. So I mean, be able to stop him and contain him really slows the offense down. So be able to cage the pocket and be able to slow him down and make him make more decisions on the run and moving around. It helps us. Go ahead, if you want to ask about their center, their center. I impress with you with him the last time you guys played. He seems to have a pretty good game, you know, and he's kind of a tough guy to move out of there and stuff that he looks like.

1:06:39What's your impression of him? He's definitely one of the better centers in the conference. I mean, he's a really good guy. I mean, be there and be there and be there and be there. The size and be able to move the way he can is really hard to get around him at times, but he's definitely having a game plan and working against and working to tendencies that he has and be able to work against that. It really helps us. It helps me. Yeah. You've got the role of middle, Steven Leonard, college football, foul. Yeah, kind of piggybacking on that. How much of it was there offensive line being a strike that are team versus Dylan Gabriel being able to escape and the lack of pressures that we had on our defense? Oh, yeah. I mean, when you got a good offensive line, it makes it even better for a quarterback, you know, be under the rollout to know that your line was going to help you protect you when you're in the pocket. I mean, it makes it easier for throws and it makes it harder for us, honestly, for having a good offensive line. So I mean, like I said before, just being able to attack the offensive line, attack the weaknesses and be able to go after and make it harder for the quarterback. He's harder for them in the world. Uh, for the right Andrew Gillis, believe in Dr. Cops. What's the challenge similar to Tim's question and you know, we play a team like this that runs the level of RPOs that they do that was going to do.

1:07:41How do you stay true and be aggressive and force the issue where, you know, Dylan Gabriel is really going to make it up for you. Uh, yeah, like I said, just putting pressure on them. I mean, we just be able to get it back there. I mean, we got a lot of different plays that can help us get back to your passer and playing and playing to their tendencies, you know, a lot of times they have the RPO, the RPO helps them out. It means to get the ball out fast. I mean, I mean, things like Jackson and JTB going to get their hands up knock the ball down crazy. Stream them out of pressure for the quarterback when you got hands in your face all times. And final questions, Bill Rebenowitz, Columbus Dispatch. We've asked about Dylan Gabriel and the receivers. They're not one dimensional. They were a good running back in Jordan, James. What makes him special and what's the challenge for you guys? Uh, I think he's definitely one of the better running backs on the conference as well. I mean, just how hard he runs is it's hard to bring him down at times. So I mean, as a front pro, we probably stopped in the run. That's the first thing we're going to do as we go on the game. Pass question is good and all, but we can't stop the run. They've been running the ball down the dough all the time. So all the time we have to figure out how we're going to stop them. We're going to run the ball and then we're going to take them down.

1:08:44So I mean, it's our job as a front pro to go on there and stop the run. We're going to make them one dimensional as we go out there. So I mean, if you get out there every time every mindset we go out there means we're going to get them. We're not going to allow them to get in the yards, allow them to get going. We're going to stop them. We're going to make them throw the ball. When I JT was up here asked him about how to compare contrast him and Jack as personalities. What's your take on that? How different are they as just personalities? I definitely think Jack is more outgoing. I mean, the guy that he's like the light that shines around me and everybody goes around him and everybody loves him. He's an outgoing guy. They come to you and shake your hand any time of day and then JT is more of the blue guy. I mean, a lot of guys gravitate to him. He just has a bright smile on him all the time. He's just a great guy that people like to be around. They're two good people, so it's hard to tell. And Ty, I do that one more question for you. Tony Irvin, like that. You guys obviously have faced tough while you did it. Lastly, what's the key for you as a defensive one facing tempo? Oh, yeah. I mean, we've been going through all week in the past two weeks. It's just getting set.

1:09:44I mean, that's the first thing you can do if you're not set. It makes it harder to do your job. So let's be able to get on the ball and get set before they're lined up and set the ball is one of more important things. So when we're set, we're able to do our jobs and the efficiency they can before they can do theirs. How do you call them? It can be difficult at times. You know, you gotta look to the signline first. You gotta get the call. I mean, the call has to be set down first. It can't be difficult at times, but that's definitely what we've been working on the past three weeks. It's just getting the call, getting the call early, getting set. So we can go and be play faster. You've changed the play to one side of the field. And now it looks lined up. They're going to be in it to the other side. So like, you've got to just run the signline just to get the one side. I mean, I haven't a lot of last game, you know. It's hard. It's definitely tough. I mean, that's what we work on and practice. It's moving as fast as we can, we're simulating these things so we can get into the game. It's a lot easier. So we're moving around side to side, running around, doing extra conditioning just for moments like this. Time. Thank you very much. Alright, thank you. We're going to try to get better every day. You know, and never be satisfied.

1:10:47And, you know, he was very demanding. You know, very demanding on his players, he's demanding on his coaches. You know, he's just very competitive. You know, and I've said this before. There's a lot of similarities between these two programs. Or maybe the personalities are different, but you know, but when I first day, I got here. First day, our first staffman, Coach, kind of talked about us being a more tougher, more physical, more disciplined football team. And that's all Coach and I would talk to him. And most of the things he would talk about, you know, and just having us being the toughest, most disciplined team out there. And that's, you know, so it's like, it was like we're hearing the same thing.

1:11:49And so, and that's what we're stressing and that's what we want to be. And that's what we're trying to be this year. We hear at Oklahoma State. Well, some of them, these best teams, especially early on, are nasty. Yeah. If it's a line, they got away from that a little bit, maybe some of them. But how do they get back to being like that physical? Well, yeah, I think we got to, I mean, we got to be demanding on them and we got to, we got to install the toughness and continue to, and still the toughness, continue to, and still discipline them. And, and just not be satisfied, you know, and, and, and, and just be demanding them. Yeah. What does somebody call you when you're still in a football camp? Well, I mean, I just, I just want us to get better every day. And I want us to, my goal, again, is for us to, to, to be tougher and to be more physical and, and, and, and, and to be, and to be, and to be more disciplined, you know, and, and, and, and really focus on those, focus on those attributes.

1:12:50And, and I know if we do, that that will carry over to us being successful in the field. Yeah. It's being, being such a veteran. How have you seen social media impact recruiting for others? Well, it's, it's impacted quite a bit. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's very interesting, you know, and, it's, it's, it's, it's, taking me, you know, I got, you know, while I get used to all of it. Yeah. I'm not saying I'm great on it, but, you're on the Twitter? Yeah, but I'm on Twitter and all that good stuff and so, so, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's been, it's been fine. But it is, it is, it is having an impact on, on, on, on, on recruiting, for sure. Yeah. The differences between the styles of offense and the United States are the most spread out. How does that affect you here in the field? Well, that's a great question. I mean, that was probably the biggest transition. For me, was, was just, and one of the most exciting things for me was being able to be a part of this offense.

1:13:51Because Coach Gundy's offices have been the best, some of the best in the country period. I mean, they've been awesome. So, I wanted to be a part of it. But with that, it was, you know, it can't be stayed. We were, we were, you know, ground and pound and we were a lot of quarterback running games, something. And, and, but also just taking as much time off the clock as we could so we could keep the, keep the ball away from other defenses. And, of our, for other, other, other offices. And so, just slowing down and that type of stuff. So, here was playing fast and getting guys to just, teaching my guys to, you know, to get up and make the calls and get the points. And, that was different. And, and so, but, but that's kind of where I was, where I was going to, where, where I was, you know, where, hey, I just, being able to, to, to resource Johnny and Marcus. Hey, you know, how'd you guys do that? You know, what, what, what was some of the things, you know, and, and Jason Meccan do, is really helpful with that as well.

1:14:52You know, so, but it's been a great transition. It's been a great transition. How does your job in Amigo with Sean? And, depending upon who wins the quarterback job, one may even work over with the other, what is that kind of working relationship like? What's been great with Sean? Sean's awesome. I mean, I've said, Sean's got a, he's got a vision. He knows where he, what he wants. He's very passionate. He's a very intense, very detailed. And, and so, you know, he knows, he knows exactly where he wants this offense to go. And, so I'm really excited. I'm really excited to get a chance to work with him. And, and the whole offensive staff has been awesome. You know, Waz and, and Casey and, and, and Mack have all been, been great. So, it's really good. Touch Gundy talking about, trying to, or, you can't, to state before, obviously, at this time. Or, those pitches like in those conversations that I've got at the time of those times. Well, I mean, it was great. Coach Gundy's, you know, he's, he was awesome. And, and so, it just circumstances just, for whatever reasons, just didn't allow me to, to be able to, to do it.

1:16:04But, but, but, but I'm just grateful now for this opportunity. I'm, I'm just grateful to game a call. I'm just, that's one thing I am very grateful for. I'm very, very thankful for that he, you know, he gave me that call. So, I'm very, really excited to be here. Obviously, we all have work to do. So, we're going to keep doing that. But, he's a, he's a great guy. What are your expectations? Yeah, you know, just to try my hardest in spring, obviously, moving the fall can't be, you know, do my job. And, wherever, you know, they're going to put the best five on the field at the end of the day. So, whatever Coach Boen thinks that's going to be his decision. You mentioned having four offensive line coaches. How much does that help to have, you know, so many different brains. It definitely helps a lot. You know, whenever you have a question and so easy to get feedback in me, you don't have to ask just Coach Boen. You guys, Dickie, if you want to, whoever you want to ask is just so many resources. So, compared to, you know, last year we just had, we had three, three guys. It was just in Friday and coach lean and one of a guy. But it's been a lot different. I've been lacking a lot more. Do you feel like you're able to get more, you know, individual instruction of having so many coaches like that?

1:17:06I definitely said that. We know we hold a lot of meetings. So, you know, talking to specific coaches about different things, you know, all them explains stuff a little different. And I'm just going to be able to find one that is, you know, it speaks to you in the way you like it to. So, it's been a lot helpful. Are you said that you changed your body a little bit since you got here? Have you felt the difference already in spring? I definitely have, you know, I would say I was a physical in high school, but I've been a lot more physical. I can tell just, you know, coach making the strength staff. You know, they help you a lot. Just exposing and all that. So, I appreciate the strength staff a lot. I'm just getting there prepared for the season, but learning the culture of life. So, coach, they asked all the seniors before we came in. They asked us if they were okay for us to come with the playoffs with them. And they all just give it a green light. They wanted us to experience that for the next time we're in the playoffs. So, we can see that I think that's helped tremendously. I think I made this mature just being around those guys and knowing what to do. We do get to that place. Are there ways that you've heard you see that thing all? I definitely can say, you know, just matured-y. Especially from this class. I think we all just came in a little bit maybe immature, but we've definitely grown throughout that process.

1:18:10Just see the way a guy like Donovan Jackson stepped up for a high school. How inspiring is that for you? It's very inspiring. You know, me and Donnie were pretty close. I like to talk to him a lot. So, you know, just seeing him move from guard to tackle and just make such a huge jump in that little time was just really cool to watch. Carter, the especially the three primary coaches you're working on, do they all speak the same language? If you follow my drill? I mean, who do you listen to most, I guess, in those kind of situations? You know, they're all from different places. So, at first, I think it was a little hard for them to mention the one that was in the league open. Now they've got it now packed. They're all excited to the same exact thing. So, that's been helping a lot. I mean, obviously they can explain stuff a little different if you like them too. But they've been doing a good job of keeping everything together. And Coach Dick in particular, what's he brought to you? What were some tidbits or things he's brought to open your eyes a little bit? Just let a little older playstyle. I could say he's not like too fancy on all the technique stuff. So, I like just how straightforward he is with all the technique stuff for sure. It's very straightforward. I know you know Luke pretty well, both of you in from Toledo. How have you just seen Luke grow here and so far going into this year?

1:19:13I think I've been watching him for a while. I've known him like you said. But I've just seen him grow as a leader. He's been really cool. Just seeing him a while back, you know, I think all the software he's seen here, we always play to each other. But seeing him move into that leader role has been really cool to see. What kind of leadership is he bringing to that unit right now? Just always talking to the younger guys, then encouraging us, you know, tell us what we need to do. And not only the younger guys, but the other guys just encourage us as a whole. What does his story mean to you? I mean, obviously this time a year ago he wasn't even sure where he was going to fit in or whatever. Now, especially through the playoffs, he was a force. I mean, what does it just tell you about perseverance, but also a season? I think it really is just never give up. I mean, obviously you might not start the first game. Maybe not even the second game. But you can always make an impact if you really, that's your desire. We've been leading on this, so that's going to be a good team. Nice car. Kind of teach you the ropes and kind of teach you tricks and tricks. You're so trained to move, you know, all the offensive lines. I would say Austin and Luke a lot. You know, I talked to them for your office, especially about technique stuff. Also been playing little different places.

1:20:15So he's been helping me a lot of my small technique things. Just what to do for sure. Is it the small stuff that is a big job from playing top ball? Is that really what kind of thing is going to be? Yeah, it's definitely the smaller stuff. Just like, you know, hand protection stuff like that. Nothing to address it. So it's been good. The tradition has been too crazy. Exactly what positions in the rep? Only a left tackle. Yeah, so far, you feel pretty comfortable there. I hope they're comfortable. These are grown men. You're going against Kenyatta and Kaden, like 22, 23 years old. Yeah, yeah. Obviously that's a lot different than the high school you're playing. What 16, 17, most 18. So it hasn't been a lot different. I first co-practice were my best. I've definitely adjusted pretty well this spring. Two more questions. Part of that. I asked Jay Maulan to come to Sancten. You guys obviously coached probably was very close. He came up to Lido a handful of times and then all of a sudden, by the time you get up here, he's gone. How's it been getting them to the new offensive line? It's been really good. You know, obviously we had all the freshmen had a really good relationship with Coach Fry. You know, then seeing him leave was actually a little hard, but we all kept our minds open with Coach Boen.

1:21:18And we're liking him a lot. We've been developing relationships with him and he's been really good to us so far. Good. Thank you guys. Thank you guys in the room. I mean, I'm not sure if it's probably something you got to ask him, but you know, Jeremiah has played with a lot of great guys throughout his career. He's seen all the talent you can see in the world. But I don't know if he's ever in all, but I mean. Oh, oh, yeah. I mean, I'm not surprised at anything he does now. Like I've seen him since we were nine years old. So anything he does, anyone hand-catch, I've seen, I'm not surprised at anything he does. When he was nine, did you know this is not a, this is something special we've been met at, maybe at nine? Oh, yeah. I mean, coaches were coming up to us complaining that we were nine years old. Like, can we get their IDs and stuff like that? So I mean, I mean, there's definitely some footage that we got to go find, but the place we used to make when we were younger and just to see where he is now is amazing.

1:22:19It seems very unaffected by all of the starter. How does that happen? I think how he was raised. He's very level-headed. He knows his goals and what he wants to get done in life. And this is just one step away from him. Can I throw a back to Texas for a couple of questions on Zoom, Scotty? Yes, sir. We're going to start with Defond from Cleaning.com. Go ahead. Brandon, I want to go back to what you were talking about with Coach Day earlier. You know, whenever he talks about this team success, he says, all the credit goes through players that seems like the players think that he deserves some of the credit. How big? How influential has he been during the turnaround you guys have had these last few weeks? He's been a huge man. Coming here after that team of Northwest, he knows heart breaking, of course. But we came in here. We had a leadership meeting. He was in here. I mean, and then we had a team meeting after that. Hearing the stuff he had to say and we had to say going back and forth, we just we knew we we have his back no matter what. I mean, there's a lot of stuff said about him and his family and stuff like that. But hey, we're a brotherhood and we're family. And we just we don't stand by him no matter what.

1:23:35Our next question is going to come from Dan. Hope Dan go ahead. Brandon, I mean, I'm sure you came in here to Ohio State thinking you'd probably be starting here in your second year, but it seems like you really embraced the growth process. Just what's kind of that process been like for you of kind of embracing your role this season and continuing to develop? Yeah. It like things doesn't go the way you exactly planted to and that just happened. You know, things have been to Mecca last year that allowed him to come back and that allowed me to learn more. And that's just how I see it makes me a better football player for the future. So yeah, I mean, yeah, let's see it. Three more on zoom. Next one's going to come from Stefan means. Go ahead. Stephen, but that's not. Yeah, you're good. But Brandon, there are a lot of clips of you this year where you're super, super excited after a block.

1:24:40And kind of showing your emotion there. What about blocking do you love so much as a receiver? I mean, I just was just being able to hit another guy with all my power. It's hard as I can without any consequences. Except if you accept a few hold, of course, but yeah, just bringing that power. I mean, I heard some of the defensive guys telling me yesterday, they were like, bro, I hate to go against you. So knowing that from the defensive guys. So I know what the other defensive guys are thinking like, just keep bringing it to them. They're not going to like it for four quarters. That's my mindset. Next question is going to come from Danny Davis. Danny, go ahead. Brandon, what are your impressions of these Texas defensive backs and this kind of we've seen from them on film so far? Yeah, the last couple of days we watched them. They're fast team. They don't give up many big plays down field. They're aggressive, but I actually know some of the DBs they have at corner there. I play with them. Well, I played with Malik Muhammad at SFE. So I might know him a little bit.

1:25:48But watching them, they're fast team, they're physical, they're disciplined, but we just got to get the job. Do you have any Malik stories or any any? Do you have any Malik stories or anything you remember about playing with them? Yeah, but I'm not going to say them here. Yeah, what's this keep that? Our final question is going to come from Kurt Bulls. Kurt, go ahead. Hey Brandon, one of the issues Texas has had the second half of the year is finishing. And what if you can speak to them? And they had a trouble obviously in the peach bowl, you know, blew a 16 point leak. And you talk about finishing and having a killer instinct and you guys obviously seem to have that now. Yeah, I think that started in offseason training at Fall camp. We always say go plus two. If you're doing a 10 yard pro shuttle, you have to go plus two throughout the line. And that's just finishing it was well.

1:26:51And then Fall camp, we had these long two and a half hour practices or whatnot. And then we came out and we had to do these finishers. We called them As for games late in the year like this. And we, I think Coach Day has a great, did a great job preparing all of us for these moments. And yeah, we just were ready to go. We have time for just a couple more questions and clumpets so we can wrap up with our other two guys. Bill Landis, Kingston the North. Brandon, try me on the second touchdown run. It seemed like you took two players out of the play first with your release. And then with the guy you actually blocked. Is that how it's designed? Or was it just lucky to get lucky to the guy decided to take off inside of the release? It's actually designed for me to block the safety and lead the corner 101 with the running back. But I was surprised the corner actually came in so far in my release. I think he thought it was a pass. But I think he was the edge of the defense. If you go watch that play, but I don't know why he came in so far.

1:27:52But it helped out for us and I made my block and triggered off score. Is there any lesson there for like even a young receiver watching that that even if you know him a play, you're not getting the ball. You're intended to block. But you release has to be the all-point as if you're going to go pitch pass. Yeah, definitely. Every little detail matters and then type of plays. We were in a red zone there. So we say every yard matters. It's two yards. So the block I made is just a testament to Kyle. Coach Hardline, prep me throughout the week to make that block. And final question. Joy Conference, Columbus this batch. Brandon Will and then there's been some of the ball to equal lately. Some of especially the way you guys have opened games. What do you think is this quick for you guys and for him and watching those plays? A lot more confidence. I say throughout the year. We were always there as offense. We had we didn't know we didn't quite know our identity. And now slowly but surely I think we found that. And we're going to keep on rolling and he's made some great throws and yeah.

1:28:56I'm sorry Brandon. I do have one more steep. How many more seconds for you? Brandon, there've been opportunities for you to play a huge role on offense. And you know the number of plays you play in game can differ from one week to the next. But the opportunity is coming sooner rather than later for you to be in every down player. What are the things you need to do in your game to take it from where it is now to be in every down guy? I think there's a lot of things I could work on in my game. I would say continuing to be football smart by IQ. Just knowing what the defense is going to do before they do it. My routes always can get better. My hands always can get better staying on the jug machine. Work ethic. Keep on top of it. Don't get satisfied with anything I do. Don't get too big. Don't get too low. Don't get too high. Don't get too low. That's what they say. You feel like a guy that the people follow. It seems like just in your mind, even the second year guy that you're kind of working toward being kind of a leadership type guy.

1:29:59I got to have guys that will take that role. It's a great feeling of course. No guys are watching what you do and listening to what you do. But we do that with a lot of players here and not just myself. But the leadership we have on this team is like no other. That's why we got so far. Brandon, thank you very much for being in meetings last year and being around the program. Does that show up more on the field or in the classroom? If there is any advantage for him? Yeah, I mean, I he wasn't out here practicing last year. So the first time that he was out here running around on the field was in December when he came up for practice as an early and early or January or whatever that was. So I think there's a little bit of advantage there just because he did get to see practice before. Again, I think that you do have some understanding and awareness of the offense. And maybe it's not the first time you hear about the formations, but to be able to go and apply that to the field. I mean, that takes a lot of work. So there is a slight advantage there just from how much you use around the program.

1:31:02But I'm not sure if in the meeting room or on the field, which one affects more ultimately, we're judge based on what we do on the field and our goal is to go out there and execute it. How do you guys show that they have the toughest guys on the team when they get retouched? Yeah, we talk about it all the time. So if we want to show where the toughest guys on the team, we can do that by showing where the hardest working guys on the team. We can show that we are the mentally toughest guys on the team. We can make sure that we don't ever get too high or too low and we play with passion and emotion without letting that emotion and passion play with us and affect us. And we talk a lot in the quarterback room about moving on to the next most important thing. So if I have a play where maybe I made the wrong read or screwed something up, I've got about half a second to kind of be bummed out about it. But I've got to learn from it and I've got to move on to the next most important thing because so many guys let that first play affect the next play. So we're really working to continue to grow from that.

1:32:02But as far as showing that we're tough, I even tell our guys that, hey, if I'm I don't know, lost in cerebells and I'm watching film. And I see in the back of that film that Julian is up or Tavian is up, but Lincoln and the opposite of Julian and Tavian are standing in the back doing a mental rep. Like that gives me confidence if I'm Austin that those guys one understand what they're doing and two are committed to get better. And are going to be in position to be tough when we need them to be tough. So like little things like that are something that we're constantly working on to show that we're being in that position. What have you seen from Lincoln in your first year working with him to help you with ease? Yeah, I've definitely seen a lot of growth from getting in here in June last year. And to what we see about now, you know, it's just a full year of understanding the offense, a full year of getting a feel for what we're trying to do and what we're trying to accomplish. And you know, just the detail is about where my eyes need to be, how I can tie my feet in with my eyes, how I can make sure that, you know, I'm not just throwing the ball to the right receiver because that's my redicated.

1:33:08But I'm also throwing it at the right time. And I'm, you know, I have accuracy within that accuracy that I just displayed by putting it on the right shoulder, right? Or the right, you know, to offset our receiver and throw them away from a defender or whatever that may look like. So that's what I'm excited because you're starting to see more and more of that from Lincoln as we've getting into the, you know, two practices. We only have two practices, but, you know, just that growth that I don't think is a growth that happened over two practices growth that happened from the time we got here and I got here in June through right now. And that's a success. He said now, three quart of that coaching three years and three like all there's three years. Can that be looking at the image for him like understanding different concepts and different reads having to see things through different languages because he's had so many different voices as that. How do you kind of give that? Yeah, I mean, he's had, he's had different quarterback coaches, but the reality is it's been the same past game. It's been the same system. So it's not like we changed the way we read a play based on who the quarterback coach was before.

1:34:14We may miss, it makes like tweaks, right, or adjustments or, you know, I had a new concept in her too. But I think what Lincoln can get from having those three different quarterback coaches is maybe just three different slightly different perspectives where the message is still the same. So maybe it's just a slightly different delivery of the same message. And I think that can definitely be advanced because he still knows, you know, on this concept, this is where my read is, but maybe he heard it in a different way over the last three years. And I guess could be a manager. Do you have a more questions if you are he's quarterbacks and they're supposed to be tough as guy first guy to the last guy to lead, but they're all trying to do that. How do you then separate yourself as one of those guys given they're all trying to strive to do the same things? Yeah, you know, I think the ultimately right is can I sustain it? Can I be the guy that does it the most consistently? I think every single one of them, I know every single one of them started that quote by Coach Day, which you know is pretty awesome.

1:35:18It's so real. It's who we have to be. We've got to be the toughest guys in the building. We've got to be the hardest working guys in the building. So it's easy to go ahead and you know, do that and be that guy. You know, the next day after seeing that quote, can I continue to be that guy when we're in practice 11 of spring ball or we're in summer and we're going through workouts with Coach Mick. And it's June 17th, you know, can I be that guy with that consistency all the way up through fall camp? It ended to moving on into next year. And I think that, you know, anyone can do something just once, you know. But can I be the guy that can do consistency? And if you look at anyone that's done anything great, it's been because of their consistency. What do you think being able to train? Where does can't we be the quarterback that Ohio State could have been? Is the able to handle that position? Where does that fit into your evaluation? Yeah, I think, you know, all these guys were a lot of that was done in the recruitment process.

1:36:18I'm confident all three of them can be the guy to say, I think that, you know, those guys already kind of check that box. So, you know, now it's just a matter of who goes out as a job. And again, we are so far away from that point, but, you know, when we're recruiting a guy, we try to figure out that stuff out. We're gathering as much data as we possibly can to learn about the person and to understand their mental makeup and to make sure that they're a fit. It's pretty cool up in the quarterback room. We've got pictures of all the, you know, great Ohio State quarterbacks up on the wall. You know, you go through and take a look at those guys. And, you know, it's just pretty neat. But above all, you can talk about some of the different guys' mental makeup and what made them different. And so how do we find those guys and bring them in and recruiting? And so we get to the point like we are now where you feel really confident about all three of those guys. They are, you know, mentally tough enough and can be at that point that they can't be that guy. What do you think they learned the most from Will and the job he did last year overall? You know, close to that. Yeah. I mean, where do I start? You know, Will, when it came to intangibles was, you know, I haven't been, I can't say I've been doing this for 35 years or anything crazy like that.

1:37:27But was by far the best I've ever seen to it. And just as far as what he did the best, you know, I think it just having is such a complete understanding of the offense. You know, from the run game to the pass game to the protections, just understanding, you know, the ins and outs and the little details and everybody's job and where, you know, certain concepts or protections or playstyles were weak. And how to adjust them if we were going to see something that made us weak there. You know, and having that total command because I think, you know, a big part of trust is showing that, you know, I'm competent and I understand. And so Will built that trust in his teammates by showing that, you know, he was extremely competent. You know, he understood everything and all the ins and outs and he could tell everybody on the field what to do. And from there, then he built it, you know, grabbed on and grabbed the trust of all of his teammates and then he could start to lead.

1:38:28So, you know, the biggest thing, it's tough to say. But I think that everything that he did was kind of built off this total understanding of what we were trying to do offensively. Billy, thank you very much. Thanks guys. I'm Sean and the rest of them. How much pressure is on Steve Fancy to perform to the high level of respect and should be passed on me? Right. I would say that last year was, you know, we excelled in certain things but we were also trying to get back to where we were in the past. So we got some great additions and we're excited for that. Ultimately, it's to use some of these guys to be the number one defense in the league and that's always going to be the goal. So whatever we can do to utilize all the different talent that we have on this team to be the best and play as a team and to build the best chemistry that we got, that's what we're going to do. What's the answer out about this offense? Just early in the game, what's the answer out of that? Yeah, we're not used to going against the normal offense I have been the past three years.

1:39:32So it's been a lot more moving pieces. Definitely have to use your eyes pretty well because if not, then somebody's going to be open. But I like what they're doing. I'm very excited for it. I just know it's making our defense a little bit better because we're having to do different things, not just the normal offense we've been used to. That was going to say just because every other team has some variations of that one and this is, is that kind of, do you think that kind of benefit you? I think because you've seen that more than the rest of it. I would say so. I mean, as the league has changed over time, I think they revert to certain offenses that do well in certain systems. I would say we're taking maybe a little bit pieces from other offense that we see to do well. So I like what we're doing. I mean, I don't know as much as some of these quarterbacks that we have on the team, some of the offensive players, but I just know it's tough to go against. I'm lowest at number last year, but still one of the top teams scored in defense. What do you guys really need to do to finish after the quarterback?

1:40:34Yeah, I would just say place heavy emphasis in practice. It's always going to start in practice with getting after the quarterback, not touch him in practice, but making some good moves. And I would just say rush more. I mean, there's so much that goes into it and goes with the coverage. Everybody works together. I would say that we had great numbers, but we do. We are trying to get that number up, but the ultimate goal is always going to be the ball. Getting the ball taken away, getting off the field, or putting our offense out there on the field, and more staying off, that means that we're doing a good job. And you're already asked about it from my competition standpoint. But from my electric standpoint, having new wins in the world and we're going to feel what kind of a trio can do for a defense. In this guy's limit with this group, I do believe we have one of the most talented linebacker core groups in the league. So just excited what we're going to be able to do out there on the field. I think we all compliment each other super well.

1:41:34Bigger guys that are explosive. So I'm excited for it. Amogies recently, but yeah, it's very excited. Have you seen from Sonny this off season moving into a new goal? He's really stepped up as our leader of the defense. I mean, he's, you know, being in his room. I really get to see how he operates every day. Like he doesn't take a single rep off. He's not just like the most vocal leader, but he's also like, he weeks by example. He is one of the biggest, fastest, strong students we have, but he's also the hardest working dude we have. Like he's never skipping out on recovery, you know, watching film. Literally everything he's, you know, he represents what a buck at football players should be and just learning from him every day. It's helped me in time. He's pretty athletic. He knows what he's doing to. He's a savvy football player.

1:42:37And so it's good having him and the locker right next to me and us just talking ball every day and you know how he could have done this better and I could have done this better. It's just making each other better and we're having fun out there and flying around. You guys talk about the rubber bands. I mean, it's awesome having him because he really does understand it. I would say he understands it more than most guys. He was a captain in all American here. You know, like the stuff he's doing today. Like every day he'll show some sort of, you know, every single we're going through camp every day. He's going, he's posting a picture of every all American linebacker we've had and we got to learn about him. Like not just the brotherhood we have here, but the past brotherhood. So we learn new all American linebacker every week and we got to learn what he did for the buck guys and what he didn't believe and stuff like that.

1:43:38So I think it's helped a lot and then you know, he's having the young guys learn the fight song and pop quiz and stuff. So it's great. We're having a lot of fun. You go actually, you go actually, you go into the names, how does that help you get acclimated to the standard of the office? It helps a ton because heat, I mean, like when you walk in the linebacker room, you just, like when I walked in, I was like, man, this brotherhood is real. I have older guys helping me when I got here because we had a pretty old team last year and they brought me in and I came in on a boot. I didn't know how I was going to go and they were all cheering me on even though I was hurting the weight room. I'm getting cheered on in competitions and stuff like that. I think that these guys, they know your name and it's helped a lot. So I think this past year has really helped me bring in the young guys and help with them and stuff like that. We're super tied as a linebacker unit.

1:44:38Who's this week's all American? We had, today was Pepper Johnson. So number 98, he was a baller. So we've had one every day. We've had different guys. We had Spielman yesterday. So it's just someone new every day and it's fun because you get here. Lauren isa lot of stories about them, which is some fun stories. He hasn't posted his yet. Eventually, I thank you. I think all of them, they're just, they're so many that have come through here and I think it helps. There's a standard like you play linebacker here. The goal should be the best linebacker unit in the country across the board and have the best linebackers. So I think that's really a standard for us. Is it better to you and go and get our baller? You're getting instruction from a guy. Been there done that. I mean, at the highest level, how much does it enhance what he's telling?

1:45:42Yeah, 100% I mean, it validates a lot of stuff he says. I think that's one of the main reasons I like them so much is that he's not only our personal relationship is great, but he knows everything about the game and I'm learning so much every single day. And like you can't find a coach who doesn't know more about linebacker than he does. And he's been through every situation. He knows, you know, when the offense does this play, what's, you know, what's what's hard for the linebacker on that play and he understands it, you know, finds ways to help us, you know, get through those plays and stuff like that. What's the reason to be a player? I mean, a lot. I was, I feel like it was one of my biggest accomplishments in my life up to now. Obviously, I think the goal one day is to be a captain here, but I feel like, you know, being an iron buck, I have a big, big off season or getting bigger and stronger. I think you just meant a lot because our teammates vote on it too. And so just knowing that like every day when we do those one-on-one competitions and leading guys, people are noticing that I was given everything I had.

1:46:45So it had been a lot to have coach make and all been choose made a good iron buck. When the past of this off season, did you start, you kind of visualize some goals that you had and was that one of them? Yeah, I mean, I think right right off the bat, right when the last season ended, you know, my goal was to be a starter and iron buck guy and just taking steps every day. We read a book, chopped wood, carried water, and it's a lot about living in the present. And so I think that's helped all of us at time is like, what can we do today? To be a very best. And so I think that's, that's what's helped me a lot. I mean, I still don't want really to go. So I mean, we still got play-tanks. Are you just being, you know, the last question you did that, I mean, you're the main group. Were you getting your workers down to just being used? Is that your work ethic anyway? Yeah, I mean, my parents are still a, you know, strong work ethic at me and, you know, not backing down for many situations and stuff like that. And so I think just going in, you know, leading and giving everything I got every day is just, you know, how happened. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

1:47:45I mean, we're just all excited to go out there and get here. Okay, well, anyway, the fact that the way that this defense has additions on every level, you know, talk about chasing the people to mine and the trampoline there, you guys have willing to second that there. The second level and the third level, who they, to go on with Sean and the rest of them. How much pressure is on this defense to perform to the higher level of expectation in the next one? Right, I would say that last year was, you know, we excelled in certain things, but we were also trying to get back to where we were in the past. We got some great additions and we're excited for that. Ultimately, it's to use some of these guys to be the number one defense in the league. And that's always going to be the goal. So whatever we can do to utilize all the different talent that we have on this team to be the best and play as a team and to build the best chemistry that we got, that's what we're going to do.

1:48:45What stands out about this offense? Just early, just early in the game. Yeah, we're not used to going against the normal offense I have been the past three years. So it's been a lot more moving, moving pieces. Definitely have to use your eyes pretty well because if not, then somebody's going to be open. But I like what they're doing. I'm very excited for it. I just know it's making our defense a little bit better because we're having to do different things, not just the normal offense we've been used to. I was going to say just because every other team has some variations that they're running this year, does that kind of do you think that'll kind of benefit you because you've seen that more in the press. I would say so. I mean, as the league has changed over time, I think they revert to certain offenses that do well in certain systems. I would say we're taking maybe a little bit pieces from other offense that we see to do well. So I like what we're doing. I mean, I don't know as much as some of these quarterbacks that we have on the team, some of the offensive players, but I just know it's tough to go against.

1:49:52Hello, Zach, number last year, but still one of the top two school and defense. What do you guys really need to do to finish getting it after the quarterback? Yeah, I would just say place heavy emphasis in practice. It's always going to start in practice with getting after the quarterback, not touching him in practice, but making some good moves. And I would just say rush, rush more. I mean, there's so much that goes into it and goes with the coverage. Everybody works together. I would say that we had, we had great numbers, but we do, we are trying to get that number up, but the ultimate goal is always going to be the ball. Getting the ball taken away, getting off the field. We're putting our offense out there on the field and we're staying off. That means that we're doing a good job. We're already asked about it from a competition standpoint, but from a collective standpoint, having new wins tomorrow, we're going to be able to feel what kind of a trio can do for a defense. In this guy's limit with this group, I do believe we have one of the most talented linebacker core groups in the league. So just excited what we're going to be able to do out there on the field.

1:50:57I think we all compliment each other super well, bigger guys that are explosive. So I'm excited for it. It's really just our family versus their family. And we just got a person here and we got to win the games and get back to the net. The chart line was saying that Carmellan ran and have really been leaders in the wrong. What if they both didn't leaders for you and the every young seevers? They've been leaders just in multiple ways, whether our column, we're in their in the film room together on the jugs. I'm asking them about this route, how I can run it better. I'm asking them how I run this route on this play just many different things. I feel like those guys, they're like big brothers and all that does help me. The valuable is that to have guys that are playing like football, but also in college for a while. So we're doing good ask us more experienced things about college life. Is real valuable for sure because they're fresh around pit guys. I feel like just being in a room with those guys. And if you're able to thrive with those guys, you know, some's going good for you.

1:52:08I had always had a good relationship with Tavian. He recruited me hard to come here. So I feel like we always talked and he came here and he's been doing this thing. I've been doing their thing and Julian saying he's another Cali Kissel. I had a little relationship with him too. So good to see Julian Lincoln and Tavian all doing real good. What is that next step for you to play in terms of evolution? What do you want to get better at? I just really just everything. I feel like you can never be too perfect and I feel like you just got to keep doing your job. So I say maybe just just showing up more and just doing my job to the T. Going against these corners of these TVs. How does that kind of lead you better? It's their full time. In high school, I had a five star corner DJ DJ on Lee. He's at Alabama. So I always had good work with corners. So I feel like it's just a lot. I'm going against a lot of good guys now instead of just being one on one that practice with DJ. So it's real good for sure. Does it take more courage to play the slot?

1:53:10Say to get please. Take more courage to play the slot. What do you mean by that? Because there's more stuff that they think is bigger. Inside you have to have a thing. You've got to be aware of it, but that doesn't make more courage to do that. I guess you can say that. I feel like I just always play slot enough. I feel like that's what I've been better at. So I feel like I feel like it's just what I have to do to be on the spot. No matter who's in front of me how big he is, how strong he is, I feel like if I got an assignment, I got to do it. I'm looking around. I remember my first day. I'm looking around. I'm looking at July. Crazy. And then I see Jeremiah crazy. I'm just looking around everybody. KJ came cranking off the bar. I'm okay. This is the real deal. How do you take that over time and then go from it? I really just take that and I'm just I just think of the challenge.

1:54:11I think all these attributes they got all these things but can they get past me though? Can they beat me though? So every day just working on that. Just getting better and better. Have you ever used any of the strong race shipping power transfers? Yeah, that's my dog. We came in together and just like talking to each other about the process, especially when my coach riled up and I was like, you know, we're going to build you with me and then we just suck through it and then me and him now. I just talk to them every day. That's my bully. We're working on different things because he's at the left. I'm at the right scene. Things from different point of view. So it's been great. How's the transition going for you? I was going to be amazing. I feel every day get better and better. I'm going to get to the best every day. So you have to be on your A.K. And going to get to do like CJ. That's my pool. Just getting better and better and transition. Just not an hour, half away from home. So this has been pretty good. You started for game plans period and so those those what are you kind of taking care of? No member of those games. What do you think you learned?

1:55:12I think like for my role, I think I did just enough. I was a person. I am now. If I was a person, I feel like I would have done laid better. But just going into that role, helping that's helping Minnesota. Do we got to do and feel like I did just enough. But there's always I could always do. Where's always work? Where did you see? That's specifically. Pass pro and my first steps. Working on those things. I have the lift and the power. I just I was all over the place. And just every I feel like every game I was understanding on how the game worked and how to attack how to be passive. But how to work together as a whole line unit not just be by myself. You mentioned the first step. What what about that first step? Um really just make it sure I feel powerful out of my sense. That was the one big thing I had a work on. Especially at my last school working on my stance.

1:56:12I was like, I'm making sure I can push off and like gain ground. And I felt like sometimes I wasn't doing that. Even mentioned that he had to lose 30 pounds. And they got here. Did you have to change from your body at all? Definitely. I was three 20 coming in and I've known I played at three 20. I feel great. And then they told me they want to be going down to three 15. And I was like, nah, I want to do that. I got three 15. I started running. I started they started putting me on the meal plan. They started doing all this. I was like, oh, I see the vision. Yeah, um, I definitely chose for my body. My arm is definitely getting bigger weight room. It's been amazing. I'm growing every day. It's hard every day, but I love it though. Like I'm getting work after practice after the weight room. I'm like, cooked, but I can see the results and seen the games. What is it like? You leave a place. You know, you're probably breaking some people's hearts back there. It's not that the describe what it's like to make a move like this. Yeah. I mean, basically the midst of a college career.

1:57:14What were you seeking more than anything else? It was definitely a big move. What was I seeking just? Just the development with knowing I can I wanted to go and get some of the best dudes every day. And coming here, I'll be able to do that. Just a training program in the culture here. And it's summer. Minnesota. So it was definitely like a easy merge. You had said you were question you hadn't really thought about Ohio State being an option. When the house is quickly to sort of emerge. What do you remember about just some of their group interview? I remember coach fried call me on a hit the portal. He was one of the couple first people to hit me up. I was going to I was going to go home anyways because I was going to go to my mom house because I fasted at. When I hit the portal, make sure I was making the right decision. And I was going to go home with my family and just talk about it. And my cousin and I never like you're already an hour and a half away. So you might as well just see what's up up there. They want to show an interest.

1:58:14And I was like, you know, I'm not sure. You mentioned the transition from fried to Tyler Bowen. Just what's been like playing with both of them so far. I don't really know too much about coach fry. You know, just a little bit of, but what I was in here, I definitely saw like dudes definitely develop. Like I can see it on tape. Not necessarily like really see that practice. But with coach Bowen every day. Just improving and he's just always tell me things. Little things. I don't even notice that I'm. And I need to work on especially with coach Johnson and coach Dickey. Having no story in the room is probably the best thing ever for you. I guess some great additions and we're excited for that. Ultimately it's to use some of these guys to be the number one defense in the league. And that's always going to be the goal. So whatever we can do to utilize all the different talent that we have on this team to be the best and play as a team. And to build the best chemistry that we got. That's what we're going to do. The fans out about just offense.

1:59:15Just early, this early in the game. The fans out about. Yeah, we're not used to going against the normal offense I have been the past three years. So it's been a lot more moving, moving pieces. Definitely have to use your eyes pretty well because if not then somebody's going to be open. But I like what they're doing. I'm very excited for it. I just know it's making our defense a little bit better because we're having to do different things. Not just the normal offense we've been used to. I was going to say just because every other team has some variations that they were winning this year. Does that kind of do you think that kind of benefit you because you've seen that more than the rest of it? I mean, as the league has changed over time, I think they revert to certain offenses that do well in certain systems. And I would say we're taking maybe a little bit pieces from other offense that we see to do well. So I like what we're doing. I don't know as much as some of these quarterbacks that we have on the team.

2:00:16Some of the offensive players, but I just know it's tough to go against. Hello, second number last year. What do you guys really need to do to finish after the quarterback? Yeah, I would just say place heavy emphasis in practice. It's always going to start in practice with getting after the quarterback, not touching him in practice, but making some good moves. And I would just say rush more. I mean, there's so much that goes into it. It goes with the coverage. Everybody works together. I would say that we had great numbers, but we are trying to get that number up. But the ultimate goal is always going to be the ball. Getting the ball taken away, getting off the field. We're putting our offense out there on the field, and we're staying off. That means that we're doing a good job. And you already asked about it from my competition standpoint. From my electric standpoint, having new wins tomorrow, we're going to win the field. What kind of a cheerio can they do for defense? I do believe we have one of the most talented linebacker, core groups in the league.

2:01:21So just excited what we're going to be able to do out there on the field. I think we all compliment each other super well. Bigger guys that are explosive. So I'm excited for it. The hard was going to be up in the air. That's why I think for me just starting out I took it something that was kind of important to me, that whoever was, everyone competing for that spot, I wanted to create a bond with them. Because I feel like a tackle guard bond is important in terms of communication understanding. Because again, a left tackle is only as good as guard is and vice versa. You know what I mean? So I feel like I've done a good enough job so far of starting to develop that relationship with each potential guy. So that way as we as spot as a spot is getting you know as people started to compete for that spot. Again, I feel like I should be able to I should be able to pop in with whoever. And we should continue to keep the standard of the standard if that makes sense.

2:02:23That's my mindset. First there's a guy competing for a spot and I've never spent any time with him just one on one during the summer. Just taking reps before camp, hey it was coming to facility, it was to XYZ. Let's talk about this tape XYZ, then they come in and then now there's no kind of flow. So now I'm not really seeing how that how we're going to fit together. But I want to fit with as many people at left guard as possible that way when the decision has been made. There's no new startup process. I got to start over my process with this guy. It's kind of already been flown if that makes sense. I think that the mindset for me as always has been that when I win my one on one the ball goes down the field. You know what I mean? And I think that's what I'm most excited about just being a left tackle is that especially with the protections that are a little bit of longer plays where the left hand is.

2:03:24The longer plays where the left tackle tends to be a one on one or my the plays I tend to love the most because kind of halfway through the play, you're locking them up and just know that he can't go anywhere. Start to smile a little bit, you're like oh dude, ball's gone. You know what I mean? Like ball's gone and it's going to be a touch that's going to be a huge gain. So I think for me that's kind of the mindset you kind of have to have at the left tackle spot is that as soon as I win my rep, we're going down the field. So that's just the mindset I have in terms of how well I have to prepare. How did you go on that mindset and where the people able to get there? Honestly I would say that mindset kind of came from college. Again obviously I played with a lot of great guys in college. You know, I'm glad we have all those guys here. You know what I mean? To throw the ball to as well just because against one of those things like with CJ, you just again, a left tackle, my mindset was just, well CJ just do his thing and that's my thing.

2:04:24I want Kyle to be able to do his thing. Don't worry about whoever's over here, just do your thing. That's why you're here and just throw it to Marvin. And you know, it will be good. You know what I mean? So that's something excited about. And I think all that starts because of what we do on the line. So when I think just not just myself but the entire room takes pride in, hey like when we do our job up front that's where everything else goes. So let these guys we have with the ball in their hands do all that magic. We just got to do our job just to entertain it when you're one on one you know. You know, just playing that spot means something special just because of the history of that position. And you know, just of all the greats that have played left tackle. I mean do you ever think about just the past and the people, the players before you who were in that spot and did great things? Yeah, I mean again, I feel like just from just as a young guy in a game, I of course try to, I like to watch the greats of the game.

2:05:24I like to watch guys like a weight worth of course, you know, a really Anderson, you know, he played on the right side but again, I think continuing to watch the greats that played the game just continue to dominate for those guys. For me, he'd be able to talk to them again to be able to learn from their story and their journey and how they developed. Of course, I understand I want to create a, I want my game to be able to be like there's in a way to where it's talked about in a way of like, that's a guy you need to watch just to watch with, you know, the fight that you played with, the finish that you played with, the technique you played with because those guys played almost 20 years, you know what I mean. So, and again, I think that's something when you watch the guys, the legendary guys come before, yeah, you know, they're strong and they're tough guys but, you know, I don't know but when you're like 36, 37 years old, you're probably not that strong. Not as strong as you used to but that technique and just the skill set, that's something that I admire. You mentioned earlier about the guys going out to UCLA and kind of getting out of the heat.

2:06:28I'm curious, when you're working out here, do you do anything outside or do you avoid it altogether right now? I don't know, I'm always outside. I'm always outside. I don't mind the heat. I love the heat. And honestly for me, it helps I'm off like 30-20 so I kind of warm up quickly. So it's kind of nice for my warm up. I don't have to be doing like 30 minute warm up. You know, you kind of just be outside long enough, collect this and your joints are on go. So I actually, I like it a lot. Going back to the players that have been in the league for a while, Calvin Beachham is one of those guys that's been in the league for a decade plus. What have you been able to learn from him? I think again, just learning how to be a pro in terms of certain things like for example, I'm a guy that when I like to train by myself, I just take a thousand reps of a set, a thousand reps of a reach block. I'm a rep, rep, rep and type fig. I've done a hundred times and I wrote perfect. And some of that beach is like talking about in terms of being a pro and I thought to me,

2:07:31that's me being a pro is a young guy. I rep some of my body. So I'm going to take a lot of reps and preparation, but beach is a guy where it's like it's not about necessarily the quantity in terms of it's really through the quality. But even more so, he's like, you know, he's obviously going to be doing something like this every single day. But when you do it like from your first rep, even your first rep is not like here, I'm taking this rep, oh, it wasn't good. It's going to be better in the second one like each rep, even when you're by yourself is just kind of, I guess a mindset, I just give yourself 15 reps instead of doing 60 reps. And it sounds like a huge difference, but to me, I don't mind taking 60 reps from by myself and there's nobody that's waiting around on me. And I'm by myself, I can take my time and I'll do that, but just being like, I'm going to do 15 perfect reps. And I'm just going to slow down and take all my time, stuff like that. That way your body, that way you're not doing too much before camp, you know.

2:08:31Many of the guys that left guard in the mix were here last year, except for Evan. How does that relationship develop throughout the next season? Yeah, I mean, so honestly, that's my guy. We like to compete, we've been competing in the weight room since day one in terms of just like, what we consider like athletic competitions. So like even in the weight room, I'm at the very end of the week when we're done lifting. I'll talk to Evan, I'll be at an hour's stand, it will just do some sort of competition, whether it's grip or whether it's jump or where it's pull ups or something. And I don't let him leave until I beat him in these two things. So if we do a jump thing, and like I always thought was the best kind of, I had the most height when I jumped out of a line, I could dominate anybody and that, but he beat me and that, surprising size of art. And then we're hopping on the bike, and then we did this bike thing, I beat him on a bike, and now we're going to pull up. So I beat him on a personal kid, now we can leave. But we just have that, we're just always just competing. And then again, obviously, he wasn't on the team with us last year.

2:09:36But I think what he brings at the table with being a vet is that he's like a plug and play guy. You know, he knows, he's been in those scenarios before, he's played with guys like Penae when he was with Detroit. So obviously, he's just being able to talk to him and how this is how it was when I was setting with Penae, this is how it was. I was saying to C-Hawks, these are the different things that I can do that mirrored some things like in your game how you set, and I'll talk to him about what I like to do in certain scenarios, and how his set can sort of match that. Does that make sense? So I think he adds a lot. What's the long as you've stayed after until you've been here? To the point where a stranger is like, you guys got to go. You guys should go, you know, we're not trying to break any rules around here. But you know, but it's just me and him just going, and he loves it. So, and even us starting to do it, we started to get other guys in the O-line that tried to hop in on our competition for fun.

2:10:37But only matters would be Evan, it's just fine, I'm just beating you. So it was fun. I couldn't pass up an opportunity to try and bump that up and go somewhere to see what he did. I did. Did you see what he said in the comments? I was just wondering if you were talking about how to lock up the ball. I was really just watching it because we played Missouri, Boston, this past year on a part of the New Deal World from like 62 yards. I was watching the game with more of a span. But yeah, I mean, the things that Coach Day does in his offense and I thought the Ryan does.

2:11:41I feel like really fit my title. I was a player where I was coming from a case day, it was a very run heavy offense, especially quarterback Ryan Hevy, which I was very happy to do and didn't want to do any more. I'm excited here to where I feel like it's more of a, you know, where I can be that pocket passer and also use my legs when I need to. But, you know, I feel like my strength is doing my own thing. But I also feel like I can do really good things. Obviously being a quarterback, you need to make those plays. Oh, it had a huge impact on it. I love my guys in case they had nothing bad to say about them. I mean, the talent here is unbelievable.

2:12:42Just being around the guys and the thing that impressed me the most about, especially the receiver room, is how driven, how much they want to work. I don't have to go out there and beg these guys to go catch. I mean, they're already out here catching on the jugs when I come out the throw. They're incredibly hardworking just all across the room. We got dudes like Carnell and Brandon and I. Obviously, a Mecca and all those guys like, I mean, that's just the, that's just the expert. There's so much talent in that room and being able to throw to guys like that makes my job a lot easier. The pressure is your boss, man. Dude, he's a dude, man. I haven't gotten to talk to him that much yet. You know, just because we've been in different groups, lifting and stuff. But man, he's a specimen. I mean, that dude is a freak show. When he comes to physical, I mean, he is, I'm excited to see him on the field and invite him to be able to come here.

2:13:47I feel like the resounding thing that I heard from, from these NFL guys and from people around the league was, need to play more. We need to see more high level play. And I feel like, you know, I played a lot of football in my time at the A-State, but, you know, I only have one year where I was really the true starter. And where I played, you know, the whole year. The most part I was a backup filling in. And I felt like, you know, there's a bunch of statistics and things that they look at. You know, I was on the very lowest end of like, you know, the amount of yards that you're supposed to throw for. You know, you look at the success stories versus the failure stories. And there was just so many signs of a point in becoming back. And really in my heart, and that was at the end of the day, I mean, it was up to me, it was my gut. And I felt like I just wasn't ready to leave college yet. I go for a more, I want to go to a competition home. And I feel like I'm going to be a great reason to make a lot of things.

2:14:48I'm going to walk in and feel like I'm going to be on the first day. Absolutely. And I mean, the biggest thing was I felt like I could come compete here in the United States. And that above anything else was one of the most important things. I felt like I just had more I want to go to college and I wasn't done yet. And that was, I think, what really drew me here. And I was getting to the next level and playing in an offense like this. I think it's really going to prepare me for that next level and give me the best shot. And that's all I just really took her on the cake for me. You're number two. Yeah, I mean, we definitely talked about it. We're all here to compete and we're all here to help the buck guys win. That's all we're here for.

2:15:48That was made evident when I came with my visit. And the thing that I'm the most fired up about is how good the dudes in the room are. And how good they've been to me. They could have believed me. I've been in a situation where we brought in an older trans again. And they could have been mad and not taught me and helped me out. But Devon and Lincoln, the guys that have been around, they've really helped us a lot. Especially us three new guys. And I know I'm older and I've done things. But still just learning a new system, learning how we do things, and how we go about our business. Everything's a little different. So I'm so thankful for those guys. They've just, they've helped me so much. Just getting a custom to being in this building. What do you get to offer them here? They're really good dudes, really good kids. And really talented too. They can both spin the ball really well.

2:16:50They're young. They know they got a lot to learn. And so do I. Right there. I think we're all trying to learn this together. Even focus over on a little bit. And we're hitting the ground running. But it's exciting. Those two guys there are special. Especially you. It's hard to say. I would probably say the draft would have been mine. You know, I was talking to some other schools. Miami and USC were in there in the mix. But it was really, I would say here in the draft at the end of it. You know, there was a lot of different things that went into it. It was a long hard process. But yeah, I would say. I mean, that was probably the most like it. When you first thought you talked to about the weight of the racquet console. I mean, I think it's going to be a good point.

2:17:50How did the competition fall? I mean, nothing, nothing crazy. You know, it was just. Thank you. Appreciate that. I'm not a fighter fan. Yeah. Appreciate it. Yeah, there you go. A little sidetrack. But, uh, no, I, what was the question again? I'm sorry. Spider controversy. What's up? Yeah. How the competition fall? Yeah. Yeah, no, it was. I mean, it wasn't really anything crazy, I would say. I just, you know, nothing really changed. It was really kind of, you know, they, they were kind of holding me off a little bit. So after that game, just in fairness. You know, I was, I was patient and, and, and, and, and, you know, it all, it all worked out. It comes to you now. You've got to make the budget.

2:18:51It's hard to tell. I don't really know. It was a world end of a process. You know, I, I started hearing initially they might be interested, but I hadn't really heard anything directly. And then, you know, really getting in like, I really started to feel that interest. Did Coach Day let you know there's a change coming in court later? A little bit. Yeah, I kind of figured that I didn't know for sure, but he kind of hinted at it. You know, he, his point was, you know, it's, it's in the best interest to him and the team. I was all in. You know, I completely understood, you know, the decision and why he did it. Your conversation with Coach Day, what was this defense about your team during the other tournament? Yeah, I mean, there were a lot of, a lot of things that were said, you know, a lot of, a lot of things that, you know, were attractive to me about this offense and about what he kind of thought about my name.

2:19:52And how he thought he did, you know, elevate me to where I wanted to, where I wanted to be. And, you know, I feel like one of the biggest things was how, how close style the offense is. And, you know, a lot of these other schools that I was looking at, you know, maybe these air raid type schools. You know, they got great offenses. And, you know, I could put up a lot of numbers, but I don't know how much that was developed. And, you know, playing in a system that Coach Ryan, which I'm using for the paint gun, I know how much, how much better can you prepare for the NFL than with somebody who's coached at a head coach level and an important level at the NFL? You know, it's, there's just all the things pointed to. You know, when it comes to safe harbor, I kind of wanted to, I kind of wanted to, I kind of wanted to, in fact, in the way that, you know, obviously, you know, obviously, you know, you see this, you know, this, how do you say ready and prepare?

2:20:58I know I took a couple of days off after the National Championship and then shoot right after that. Right after that, I'm writing, writing Tampa, Florida and I'm right to it. And so, yeah, I think while I trained, I trained at your birth performance. I think it's called the House of Athlete or the Compound now. They did a good job, man. They're just bringing us in and the way they went about training us, man, they did a really good job. The Bucking Nears, no, I haven't. Tampa, Tampa, nice. This is nice. It's a nice city, man. Really nice. I got a 40 to broad and avert.

2:22:00Yeah. Yeah. No, man. It's really all about technique and then it's about mindset as well. And so, I say, you know, it's for the love of my brother. It's for the love of Will Howard. It's for the love of the receivers who I got on the perimeter. I'm making sure, you know, first of all, my quarterback doesn't get sacked. And I told Will, I think it was before the first game. I was like, I got your brother. I said, man, I'm not going to let you get hit, you know, and so I don't know if I gave up a sack. I'm not sure that. But I know if I did, I haven't given up too many. And so, man, it's for the love of my brother's, though, man, making sure the ball get in their hands. You know, the guys on the outside and making sure they get fed. You had to hit the practice field later today. What is something you've been working on right now? In my game, you can't really work on this, you know, in all season, I feel like it's more so, you know, you got to put the pads on. You got to go through some inside run, you know, maybe it's really just continuing to run through tackles. And so that's I feel like that's one of the areas in my game. You know, I want to continue to get better at it.

2:23:02I feel like I did a good job of that my senior year. And so I just want to continue to build on that. Yes, I did. Yes, I did. So people try to look like, I'll let him run out there. Get back in there and say, I can make them do more rounds. I did meet with New Orleans as well. I never got that comparison. Actually, I know I have a Camera. Sure, yeah, man, I have a Camera. Great, great back, man. Just what he does and those 101 matchups, he's dangerous, man. And he's so smooth. He's so smooth as well. I'm not going to lie. He's smooth. Yeah. Inside zone from stack, being able to hit that thing downhill. And I say the next one is probably just an option route out of the backfield. You know, and man, man coverage, you're getting on that linebacker. Yeah, I say the man the biggest thing is the way that he carries himself, man.

2:24:11And the way that man, he approaches the game. He comes in with the mindset, you know, he's going to work every single week. You know, every practice, you know, he's working hard. You know, even shoot. I don't know. Every good. I think he had every game was a good game for him, man. And so, but still, man, he always has the mentality to mindset that, you know, he's going to come in each and every day. He's going to continue to work and get better, man. And so he's definitely, man. He's going to be a special player, man. He really is. Man, a lot of ups and downs, man. It's just how you respond to adversity. And I feel like that's something that God has definitely helped me to do better. Is this, I'm not having something to lean on now. You know, I remember before I met him, you know, going through those adversity, I had nothing to run to. You know, you can run to people, but they still can't. It's not too much. They can't truly help you. You know, I feel like, you know, I feel like the only person that can truly help you is your relationship with Jesus Christ.

2:25:11And so, being able to lean on him, you know, he gives you, in those moments where it's tough, you know, where it's slow. And when you're behind the scenes and you're going through things that people don't know about, he gives you that peace and comfort. You know, even in those moments, man, we're so hard that you can't explain. It's like, man, I'm going through this, but like, how am I still filled with this internal joy? You know, how do I have so much peace in this situation? And so that's something that only Jesus Christ can give you. The back of the firm, Peterson Power and Judgment, is through our back of the firm. Which aspect, the future, those other individuals that you want to follow and being around power and... Um, man, those guys have such a great mentality, man. Am I just really loved their mentality, especially Q as well. You know, I talked about Will Howard, his leadership, but Quincham mentality, man. That boy just, yeah, that boy just gifted. You know, you see, you know, sometimes he put in a situation where he looked like, you know, he should have a negative five yards.

2:26:14And as soon as you know it, you know, he, that running through somebody, still forming somebody, and shoot, it's a game of 10. And so... You some of the things that he does, he just realizes two different things. Yeah. Shoot, I think... Yeah, man, I think it just like, he's just gifted, man, to be honest. He's just gifted, you know, he's a big back, you know, he's strong, and so, you know, he's able to do those things. And so, yeah, man, it's definitely, you know, I look at his game, and I want to, you know, at the same time, I want to learn from Quincham. You know, I want to look at this game, and it's like, man, where can I get better at as well? You know, that's the type of player I am. I'm always looking to get better, man. I'm always looking to grow as a player. What's your last interview? Julian San. Oh, yeah, he's going to be a great, but he's going to be a great quarterback, man. He's so, so accurate, and so, he's definitely, man, I know Coach Dez is definitely going to get him right. Just, you know, container grow as a leader, container grow as a player, and so he's going to be really good for a high state. I know just the quarterback position.

2:27:15I feel like, you know, the quarterbacks in the past, they've definitely been vocal, and so I feel like that's something that they're definitely going to ask Julian San as well. It's to be that vocal leader and lead the offense and lead the team. Thanks, Trent. Shoot, man, he has a build like JK Dobbins, and I kind of see them, you know, similarities in their game as well. And I know JK Dobbins, he was a great running back. I feel like he's not talked about his none. A lot, but man, his career here, you watch his highlights is great. I remember before I recruit, before I committed here, I remember watching JK Dobbins highlights like every, every one of his years here, like four or five times. And so, man, he was such a great back. And I feel like, you know, when I see JK Dobbins, when I see James people, I see similarities to both of their games. I feel like they play the same. And so, appreciate you all. Yeah, I'll be going.

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